Mental health and wellbeing: JSNA toolkit
Links mental health data, policy and knowledge to help planners understand needs within the local population and assess local services.
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This guidance supports health and wellbeing boards and others interested in producing local mental health joint strategic needs assessments (JSNAs). It helps people to consider factors that affect mental health and wellbeing and to identify some of the main data, information and knowledge that local areas may use to build a picture of need.
The toolkit combines:
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the Mental health and wellbeing JSNA (MHW JSNA) fingertips profile providing access to metrics on prevalence, risk and protective factors, and activity in and quality of support and care provision
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the MHW JSNA knowledge guide providing links to policy, guidance and evidence relating to understanding and meeting mental health needs
Last updated 25 October 2019 + show all updates
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Updated 'Perinatal mental health', 'Working age adults', 'Children and young people' and 'Living well in older years' guidance. Revised and retitled 'Understanding place' and 'Understanding people' as 'Mental health: environmental factors' and 'Mental health: population factors'.
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First published.