Our Products
The JSNA Hub contains a range of products. These fall into five categories:
Profiles: Short desk-based thematic overviews of core topics that provide a brief summary of a topic for Camden. Examples includes demographics, prevalence of health conditions, and summaries of geographic areas.
Health Needs Assessments (HNA): Desk-based overviews of the needs of a specific group or users of a service with actionable recommendations that are relatively rapid. Examples include reviews of condition such as diabetes, maternity or long Covid pathways, sexual health and drug and alcohol services, and wider determinant issues such as employment or housing.
JSNA Chapters: Similar to a HNA but developed with substantive stakeholder engagement such as with residents, VCS, staff, and NHS partners. JSNA Chapters are included on the forward plan taken to the Health & Wellbeing Board. Examples include Gypsy, Roma, Traveller communities, Social Isolation, Adult Mental Health, Perinatal Mental Health.
Briefings: Short reports on specific issues that support specific pieces of work for instance research or evaluation reports, regular reports for board, or ad-hoc analysis on more niche topics. The contents of these will vary greatly depending on the topic.
Dashboards and tools: Interactive tools to explore, visualise, and review data.
Where possible Profiles, HNAs, and JSNA Chapters will be consistently structured. The table below outlines the minimum that should be covered within each product, though individual products may include additional items.
| Profile | HNA | JSNA Chapter | Section | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Why it matters | What impact does the issue have on health & wellbeing? |
| ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Causes & risk factors | What does the existing evidence base and wider literature say increases risk? |
| ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | What the data shows | What is the scale and spread of the problem? Data on prevalence, incidence and service uptake may be included. |
| ✔ | Wider context | What is happening in relevant local, regional, and national policies, strategies, and thinking? | ||
| ✔ | ✔ | Local service provision | What relevant services exist locally? How do they perform? Are there gap between need and service provision? | |
| ✔ | Stakeholder consultation | What do residents, users, staff, partners, and commissioners think about the issue and current provision? | ||
| ✔ | ✔ | What works | A rapid review of evidence and literature on what is effective in addressing the issue. | |
| ✔ | ✔ | Recommendations | Concise recommendations based on the information set out in the report. These include tangible and specific steers for addressing either gaps in knowledge or gaps in the provision of services/ interventions in meeting the needs of the population. | |
| EQIA guidance | A summary to support the completion of Equality Impact Assessments for services related to the issue. | |||
| Summary | An summary for greater accessibility/dissemination (e.g. an infographic or single page summary). |
Whilst most content is public, some may be restricted. In these cases endeavours will be made to publish public summaries where possible. In all cases efforts are made to ensure content is accessible in language and form
To ensure content is in a consistent and accessible formats work should be undertaken in partnership with Camden’s Public Health Intelligence team.
Before starting work it is important to identity what is aiming to be achevied and which type of product may be most appropriate, which in some cases may be a challenge. A general guide is below:
Are you commissioning a new service? → JSNA Chapter
Do you lack robust knowledge of stakeholder views? → JSNA Chapter
Are you recommissioning a well-understood service? → HNA
Do you want to focus on desk-based analysis and research? → Profile or HNA
Are you interested in better understanding a new topic? → Profile or HNA
Do you need a general overview of a population or topic? → Profile
Need regularly updated analysis for reporting? → Profile or briefing or other tool
Need regularly updated data for exploring? → dashboard or other tool
Doing something else such as research or evaluation? → Briefing