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Bolton Tobacco Control Plan 2022 - 2026
Smoking remains the biggest cause of ill health and early death in the UK (United Kingdom). Bolton aims to create a positive movement across the borough towards becoming Smokefree. Find out more in Bolton's Tobacco Control Pla2022 - 2026
Director of Public Health's annual report 2023: Community matters
This year's annual report looks at the strengths and resources in our communities are helping them to stay well, sometimes referred to as a community asset-based approach. Find out more on the public health annual report page
Greater Manchester VRU's strategic needs assessment for violence
The Greater Manchester VRU strategic needs assessment for violence is now available from the Violence Reduction Unit website
2023/24 updates are also available
Bolton's violence prevention strategy
Bolton's violence prevention strategy 2024-27 is now available to view
Dementia in Bolton
Outputs from an in depth piece of work on dementia in Bolton are now available.
Access a range of local boundaries and geographies!
Check out the Geographies page of this website to see the range of geographies in use locally and download files for your own use. Includes a Bolton postcode lookup (giving geographical location of postcodes and which geographies they fall within) and a range of local boundary files in a variety of file formats.
The census provides an invaluable source of information on the population relating to a wide range of topics. Because (nearly) everyone fills it in, you can get information from it about very small areas.
Census resources:
- Census maps - easy to use tool for viewing census data in a map format for various types of geographies
- build a custom area profile - easy to use tool that lets you build a custom geography (or use existing ones) and see how various census data compares for your area and a comparator, such as England or the rest of Bolton.
- Origin-destination explorer - for people moving house and commuting to work (pandemic will impact commute data)
- Create a custom dataset - look at how several factors vary together in a combination you select and download as a dataset.
- NOMIS - download pre-made tables of current and previous census data.
- How life has changed in Bolton - the ONS has produced a series of reports looking at changes since the previous census at local authority level.
- The ONS website provides informatation on exising and upcoming releases from the 2021 and previous censuses.
Census briefings:
Bolton’s JSNA can be found on www.boltonjsna.org.uk and contains a wealth of information about the Bolton population, their current health, and the wide range of factors that affect health such as the physical and social environment people live in. This will be of use to people who need to consider information about Bolton in funding bids, service recommissioning, student projects, or equality impact assessments. Join this session to: Discover how an intelligence informed approach helped targeting of activities aimed at increasing Covid vaccination uptake where it was lowest; increase your understanding of the Indices of Multiple Deprivation, a core dataset for understanding small area socio-economic inequality, and resources about this on the JSNA website; and find out more about inequalities in relation to Bolton’s climate emergency.
Bolton’s Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) is a statutory assessment of the current and future health and care needs of the Bolton population. Join this session for a guided tour of the JSNA website, and to hear about how it’s been used in relation to Bolton’s Fund community grants scheme and Bolton’s equality strategy.