To support Primary Care Trusts and local authorities, the Association of Public Health Observatories and Department of Health have developed the
Health Inequalities Intervention Toolkit. This is designed to assist evidence-based local service planning and commissioning, including
Joint Strategic Needs Assessments.
The Infant Mortality Tool also supports planning to achieve the national health inequalities Public Service Agreement target:
Starting with children under one year, by 2010 to reduce by at least 10 per cent the gap in mortality between the routine and manual group and the population as a whole.
Contents
The Infant Mortality tool contains data for Strategic Health Authorities in England and for those local authorities with high numbers of infant deaths in the
Routine and Manual (R&M) group. For Strategic Health Authorities, the tool:
- Presents trends in infant death rates for the R&M group, births within marriage and joint registrations, and sole registrations.
- Shows the factors which are contributing to the gap in infant mortality between the R&M group and births within marriage and joint registrations
(such as such as smoking in pregnancy, poverty, maternal obesity and failure to initiate breastfeeding) and allows users to assess the impact of modifying these factors.
- Brings together background data on factors which may influence infant mortality, such as deprivation, low birthweight and ethnicity.
Background data and charts of trends in infant mortality are also presented for those local authorities included within the tool. A link to further resources which may help address inequalities in infant mortality is also available.
To access the Infant Mortality Tool click here.
Need help with the tool?
A set of links to further resources are also provided below
Help documents are included within the tool to support users and aid interpretation of results from the tool:
- A set of Frequently Asked Questions can be found via the Light Bulb icon within the tool.
- Links to resources related to infant mortality, child health, and health inequalities can be found via the View Further Resources button within the tool. The first resource within this collection is a review of the evidence of the factors contributing to the gap in infant mortality.
- A document with the technical details underlying the tool is located below.
Infant Mortality Tool - Further resources
Access data
Selected data from the Infant Mortality Tool can be accessed from the Excel workbook linked below.
Other tools in the Intervention Toolkit:
Spearhead Tool – Life Expectancy Gaps
Find latest data on local gaps in life expectancy between Spearhead areas and England. Access tables and charts which show the causes of death, and age groups,
which are driving low life expectancy in each Spearhead area.
Spearhead Tool - Commissioning Interventions
Assess the impact that evidence-based interventions can have on reducing the inequality in life expectancy between each Spearhead area and England.
(Includes new intervention on blood sugar control.)
Intervention Tool for All Areas
Find information on within, as well as between, area inequalities. Access data on gaps in life expectancy between the most deprived quintile of each local
authority in England, and a range of comparator areas. Estimate the effect on life expectancy if certain evidence-based interventions are increased.
Access the Health Inequalities Intervention Toolkit here
The Health Inequalities Intervention Toolkit has been developed by the Association of Public Health Observatories, working in partnership with the Department of Health.