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Gaining Healthier Lives in a Healthier City

The 2011-14 Joint Strategic Needs Assessment for Southampton

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The purpose of this website is to help professionals, services and communities themselves to improve the health and wellbeing of Southampton’s population through clearly identifying local needs. “Gaining Healthier Lives in a Healthier City” is Southampton’s second Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) and will cover needs for the period 2011-14.  The JSNA sets out to identify the ‘big picture’ for health and wellbeing.

 

A needs assessment is ‘a systematic method for reviewing the health and wellbeing needs of a population, leading to agreed commissioning priorities that will improve health and wellbeing outcomes and reduce inequalities' (Department of Health JSNA Guidance 2007, p.7).  

 

The steps leading up to the creation of this website has been:

 

  • The creation of a comprehensive consultation document: The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) refresh consultation 2010 was produced in July 2010 to identify the needs and consult with stakeholders.

  • Consulting with the public and stakeholders: Using the large document above and a magazine summary called Health Matters 3, a four month consultation was completed at the end of 2010. Please see the report of the consultation.

  • Discovering 9 key themes: Using consultation feedback and public health knowledge, 9 key themes were identified and used as the basis of this website.

  • Creating a website as a dynamic tool for the use of information: The information on this website will be updated regularly to ensure that professionals and communities are able to access the most recent data available.

 

To begin using the online JSNA simply click on the theme of interest to the right. Data tables, charts and maps can also be accessed via the data compendium pages using the link to the right.


Please note: some sections of this website are still under construction, so information may be missing in places. As a dynamic resource, updates are being continually uploaded, so please check back regularly.


Nine Key Themes of the JSNA

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“Gaining Healthier Lives in a Healthier City” is Southampton’s second Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA). It aims to review the health and wellbeing needs for the City in order to identify commissioning priorities to improve health and wellbeing outcomes and reduce inequalities. Click on the link below to read more about the JSNA background and process or on the link to the right to download the JSNA Executive Summary. 

 

Deprivation is a significant issue in Southampton and is a wider determinant of health outcomes. The economic recession is having a marked impact and the average weekly wages are low compared to the rest of the South East.

 

One in six of the adult population experiences mental ill health at any one time. Anxiety and depression are common conditions which can affect all age groups. Mental health conditions are poorly understood by the wider community and are often associated with fear and stigma.  Many people feel excluded from their communities and lack confidence in accessing mainstream resources.

 

As the birth rate continues to increase in our City we need to ensure that support is available for those who need it throughout childhood and into early adulthood. In Southampton it is intended that every child and young person will be given the best possible opportunity in life. However, this is currently not the case for all children and young people; still children are not achieving as well as we would like at school, too many are overweight or even obese and oral health is still very poor in school children.

 

Taking responsibility for health and lifestyle are important from cradle to grave; even pre-pregnancy diet, alcohol, smoking and drug consumption and levels of physical activity can have an impact on a child yet to be conceived.  Much of the modifiable disease prevalence within Southampton reflects the poor lifestyle choices that many in the City make.

 

As the proportion of older people in the population increases, the management of long term conditions will continue to increase.  As illness worsens there is often a requirement for more social care support. Treatment of these conditions is costly both to the NHS and to society; however these conditions and their complications are often preventable.

 

One positive consequence of wider improvements in health and well-being achieved over recent decades has been that more people are living longer.  However living longer poses challenges for health and wellbeing services.

 

The environment has a significant relationship to the way we live our lives; the layout of towns and cities can influence opportunities to be physically active especially with regard to active travel and the provision of open spaces. With air pollution high in a number of places in the city we need to reduce this and our carbon footprint to ensure our city is a safe and healthy place in which to live.

 

The protection of vulnerable children and adults is one of the key aspects of a developed society and a legislative responsibility for both Southampton City Council and NHS Southampton City. There is well established evidence that children and young people in families where there are problem levels of alcohol and/or drug use suffer poorer outcomes than their peers in families without these problems. 

 

The World Health Organisation (WHO) states that ‘it is every child’s right to live free from vaccine preventable disease’. The widespread implementation of immunisation programmes over the past 30 years has led to remarkable achievements. Yet evidence shows that there are still groups of children and young people who are at risk of not being fully immunised within our city.

 

A changing population in the City underpins the 9 key themes of the JSNA. Southampton as a rich vibrant city has to continue to respond to the changing population and their needs, including the impact on birth rate and migration. This section summarises some of the key demographic information for the City.

 

The data underpinning this document has been collated into an online compendium and is available to download on this website. The data is organised into the same 'key themes' that underpin the JSNA, thus making it easier for the reader to map across. Throughout the compendium Southampton has been benchmarked against England and against its peer PCTs and local authorities. Where appropriate data is also presented for localities and wards within Southampton. Finally, where possible time trend data is presented at City level.

 

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It was imperative to receive feedback from the public on the comprehensive refresh of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment document. This concentrated on potential gaps within the document and the priorities of the public for Health and Wellbeing in the City. This was a four month consultation encompassing various methodologies. Full details are available in the consultation report which can be downloaded by clicking the link to the right.