The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) is an assessment of the health and wellbeing needs of the local community.
The JSNA informs the Health and Wellbeing Board’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy. It also informs the strategic plans developed by a range of local stakeholders. Furthermore, it supports the effective commissioning of services by the council and its partners.
The published information in our JSNA is grouped under five headings including:
- Demography
- the population of Portsmouth and future projections
- equalities data from 2021 Census
- births in Portsmouth
- deaths in Portsmouth
- Children’s health, social care and education
- Department for Education data on education
- Data on breastfeeding, health visiting and child development
- Data on healthy weight, vaccinations and teenage conceptions
- Adults health and wellbeing
- Factors underpinning positive outcomes e.g. healthy weight, sexual health
- Key drivers of poor outcomes e.g. smoking and substance misuse
- Key causes of mortality and morbidity e.g. cancer
- Poverty and the cost of living
- Regularly updated data on the impact of the cost of living crisis in Portsmouth
- Poverty in Portsmouth (The Public Health Annual Report 2023)
- Place and environment
- Health protection in Portsmouth
- Air pollution
JSNAs from other Health and Wellbeing Boards across Hampshire and the Wessex area can be accessed via the Wessex Health Partners Data Directory, which also signposts a range of related local data resources.