New Community Profiles for Greater Glasgow and Clyde

The Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH) has created a new set of community health profiles building on the success of similar health profiles produced by NHS Health Scotland in 2004.  These new profiles for Greater Glasgow and Clyde were published in February 2008.

Coverage

Ten community profiles have been constructed, one for each Community Health (and Care) Partnership within the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.  The parts of NHS GGC lying within Lanarkshire are not included but are included in complimentary ISD profiles covering the rest of Scotland (published in June 2008).  

As well as presenting information for the whole community, the same set of indicators are provided for smaller areas within each community.  Within Glasgow City, the lower geography used is neighbourhoods (housing forum areas), while in the rest of Greater Glasgow and Clyde a modified version of the Scottish Government's intermediate zone geographies have been used.

Indicators 

The indicators used in the profiles are based on a socioecological model of health and include a combination of health outcomes (e.g. deaths, hospitalisations) and health determinants (e.g. behaviours, socioeconomic factors).  

Purpose 

It is the intention that these profiles serve a number of purposes, including:

• providing organisations and communities with up-to-date and locally relevant public health intelligence;
• highlighting health and social inequalities;
• showing trends in key indicators;
• providing local level information for targetting resources and priority setting; and
• developing knowledge of the complex nature of health and its determinants.

These profiles were published in paper format and electronically in February 2008.  We have also published a briefing paper which describes the methodology, key findings and use of the profiles to date.  

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