Mental health is far more than just the absence of illness. It is a dynamic state of wellbeing where individuals can navigate everyday stresses, work productively, and contribute meaningfully to their communities. In Essex, the latest Adult Emotional and Mental Wellbeing needs assessment (2025) outlines why prioritizing our collective mental health is essential for a thriving society. Note: This folder contains two...
These supporting documents accompany the Health and Wellbeing Strategy (2026–29), which sets out a shared ambition to improve health outcomes, reduce inequalities, and create the conditions for people to live well at every stage of life. They draw on updated evidence from the 2025 Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and reflect the priorities residents and partners highlighted through the statutory consultation...
The purpose of this survey, led by Essex Public Health and Essex Youth Service on behalf of the Teenage Pregnancy Prevention group, is to gather the views of young people on a range of topics relating to relationships and sexual health, understanding what further information and support they would like and their preferred ways in which to access it. This survey...
The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) is the official measure of relative deprivation in England. It is part of the Indices of Deprivation (IoD), which look at different aspects of disadvantage. IMD uses a well-established method to define deprivation broadly, covering many areas of life such as income, employment, health, education, housing, and living environment. The IMD 2025 initial report highlights...
Greater Essex Trends has been developed to describe and communicate some of the key challenges and drivers of change that are shaping the lives of people across our diverse communities. It describes some of the strengths of Greater Essex and the opportunities we will have to grow, learn, and prosper in the years ahead. By bringing these different threads together,...
A Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) is a comprehensive assessment of the current and future pharmaceutical needs of the local population. Health and Wellbeing Boards have a legal duty to produce and publish a PNA for their area. This set of documents includes the assessment and 7 appendices. Supplementary statements will also be published here with updates on provision of services. It sets...
The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest threats the world has ever faced, and it kills 8 million people a year worldwide. In 2019, a national ambition was set for England to become smokefree by 2030. Essex has also matched this ambition by signing the Local Government Declaration on Tobacco Control on October 2023. To support Essex going smoke free,...
The JSNA Greater Essex Profiles offer a high-level overview of health for each lower-tier local authority in Greater Essex. They pull together existing information and data on a range of indicators for local populations, highlighting issues that can affect health in each locality. These reports should be used alongside the comprehensive suite of Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) dashboards. These documents...
A Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) is a comprehensive assessment of the current and future pharmaceutical needs of the local population. Health and Wellbeing Boards have a legal duty to produce and publish a PNA for their area. This set of documents includes the assessment, 8 appendices and 11 supplementary statements from April 2023 and a further 7 from December 2023 with...
The Local Area Health Scorecard shows the latest summary snapshot of health in an area. The scorecard can be used to quickly understand the health of your area which, combined with your local knowledge, will help to tailor the support your school needs from the Healthy Schools Programme. Each scorecard has a summary table showing the latest data at district &...
