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 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 2021 Domestic Abuse Act places a duty on Essex County Council, as a Tier 1 Local Authority, to provide support to victims of domestic abuse. As part of its statutory duties, Essex County Council needs to produce a Domestic Abuse Commissioning Strategy, which sets out the objectives of the local authority and actions the local authority will take towards achieving...
The High Level Essex JSNA Summary provides an overview of the health and wellbeing needs across Essex. It summaries key insights gained from research and health needs assessment, in order to improve health and wellbeing, support evidence informed decision making, prioritisation and action to reduce health inequalities effectively
Healthy life expectancy is the number of years a baby born today is expected to live in 'good health', provided that current mortality and health trends remain fixed over their lifetime. There is interest in understanding how healthy life expectancy varies within Essex. This has not been possible due to the data not being available at small areas below district...
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...
The Essex Youth Vaping report provides the insights from the research project conducted to understand more about children and young people’s (CYP’s) vaping in Essex. With findings from CYP, parent’s/carer’s of CYP, and secondary schools, this includes Essex information on: Scale of youth vaping, and the culture, experiences, and activities around it Levels of knowledge and awareness around vaping,...
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...