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 Essex Resident Survey is Essex County Council’s biggest survey exercise and aims to generate insights on residents’ aspirations, views and values, helping to shape strategy, and to inform key delivery programmes and our engagement with residents. With just over 6,500 residents responding to the 2023 survey, it allows us to better understand the diversity of views and experiences within...
Supporting people to live healthy lifestyles is one of the Everyone’s Essex commitments, and increasing levels of physical activity among children and young people is a key priority for the county. To inform the expansion of the Find Your Active campaign, research was needed to better understand children and young people’s attitudes and behaviours around physical activity, to inform the campaign...
Reporting the Essex picture for Conceptions and Abortions for those under the age of 18
The Oral Health Needs Assessment (OHNA) report forms part of a wider Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) suite of products that provide an overview of the key issues across Essex. The aims of this report are to: · To describe the oral health of the local population · To support the targeting of resources towards improving the oral health · To identify new or alternative ways in which...
The health protection dashboard is an interactive tool providing intelligence and insight to allow our stakeholders to understand the need in their local area on issues pertaining to health protection. This tool contains relevant information on the domains of health protection: communicable disease control, emergency preparedness and environmental health. This dashboard is a work in progress and still subject to...
This report provides the findings of research conducted aiming to investigate covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in Essex (vaccination and booster hesitancy). Through a mixed methods approach, the reasons why residents delay or refuse the vaccination or booster dose was investigated, with a focus on understanding the barriers and facilitators, and what could be done to help address hesitancy.
The Essex Resident Survey is Essex County Council’s biggest survey exercise and aims to generate insights on residents’ aspirations, views and values, helping to shape strategy, and to inform key delivery programmes and our engagement with residents. With almost 6,000 residents responding to the 2022 survey, it allows us to better understand the diversity of views and experiences within the...
In February 2022, Essex County Council's Data and Analytics service undertook analysis into gender inequalities in Essex. This work looks into inequalities within: Education Income & Employment Built Environment (Household environments and fuel poverty) Health The analysis shows that within Essex, greater inequality is experienced by women within all aspects of life. The attached presentation provides more detail.
The Covid-19 impact assessment reports provide an overview of the impact landscape and shared challenges across Greater Essex organisations, as it stood in August 2021. The reports bring together insights or work conducted at an Essex level, national insight and reflections from learning events, discussions with various boards and round table events. There are 6 separate issue papers framed around...