Guidance

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.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 30 August 2017
• Last updated: 25 October 2019
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  1. 25 October 2019

     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'.

  2. 30 August 2017

     First published.

This publication was withdrawn on 4 November 2025

The JSNA toolkit has been withdrawn because it’s out of date. Following the response to the health and social care statistical outputs consultation, the mental health and wellbeing JSNA profile was also removed on 4 November 2025. You can find data about mental health at a local level in the adult mental health and wellbeing and perinatal, children and young people’s mental health profiles on the Department of Health and Social Care Fingertips website.

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[Withdrawn] 1. About the mental health and wellbeing JSNA toolkit

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[Withdrawn] 2. Mental health: environmental factors

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[Withdrawn] 3. Mental health: population factors

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[Withdrawn] 4. Perinatal mental health

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[Withdrawn] 5. Children and young people

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[Withdrawn] 6. Working age adults

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[Withdrawn] 7. Living well in older years

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Details

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:

• 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

• the MHW JSNA knowledge guide providing links to policy, guidance and evidence relating to understanding and meeting mental health needs