The Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF) from the Office of Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) sets out a vision for public health. Its aim is to:
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- improve and protect the nation’s health
- improve the health of the poorest fastest
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The framework focuses on the two high level outcomes OHID want to achieve across the public health system and beyond:
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- Increased healthy life expectancy
- Reduced differences in life expectancy and healthy life expectancy between communities
The focus is on reducing differences between people and communities from different backgrounds. This is not only life expectancy, but healthy life expectancy.
Improvements in these outcomes will possibly take years or even decades. OHID have developed a set of supporting indicators grouped into 4 domains. Indicators cover the full spectrum of the concept of public health and what is realistically measurable now.
The overarching indicators domain presents the high level outcomes, with the supporting indicators grouped into 4 domains, with their own objectives:
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- the wider determinants of health domain objective is to measure improvements against wider factors that affect health and wellbeing, and health inequalities
- the health improvement domain objective is that people are helped to live healthy lifestyles, make healthy choices and reduce health inequalities
- the health protection domain objective is that the population’s health is protected from major incidents and other threats, while reducing health inequalities
- the healthcare and premature mortality domain objective is reduced numbers of people living with preventable ill health and people dying prematurely, while reducing the gap between communities
Indicators are grouped and displayed as a spine chart; users are able to click on an indicator to compare to other local authorities, and to view trend data by choosing a selection under the Data View drop down.