Department of Health & Social Care
Other technical guides
Guidance on public health methods was also published by predecessor organisations.
These briefings and guides remain available as potentially useful resources for information about public health statistics and analysis. It should be noted, however, that some of the information within the documents has been superseded.
Technical briefings published by the Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO)
APHO technical briefing 1: sources of data on lifestyle risk factors in local populations (published 2005)
APHO technical briefing 2: statistical process control methods in public health intelligence (published 2007)
APHO technical briefing 3: commonly used public health statistics and their confidence intervals (published 2008)
APHO technical briefing 4: target setting in a multi-agency environment (published 2008)
APHO technical briefing 5: geodemographic segmentation (published 2009)
APHO technical briefing 6: using small area data in public health intelligence (published 2009)
APHO technical briefing 7: measuring smoking prevalence in local populations (published 2010)
Supplementary paper: other potential sources of smoking-related data (published 2010)
APHO technical briefing 8: prevalence modelling (published 2011)
APHO technical briefing 9: measuring sustainable development (published 2011)
The good indicators guide: understanding how to use and choose indicators (published 2010)
Dying to know: how to interpret and investigate hospital mortality measures
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