Health

Six global indicators with real-world impact

Categories: Environment, Health, ONS
Tree with Right hand side full of leaves on health patch of grass and the other half is dead with no leaves on a dried up patch of mud

The ONS has been helping to establish global standards for official statistics on climate and health.  In March this year, the United Nations Statistical Commission decided to incorporate six new indicators developed in this project into the authoritative Global Set of Climate Change Related Indicators and Statistics.  Here Myer Glickman,  Head of Climate and Global Health at the Office for National Statistics, explains what has been involved and his hopes for what they will achieve.

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Bringing data to life: The link between health and wealth

Categories: Data, Economy, Health, Labour Market, Research, Wellbeing

Join us on Tuesday 21st October for the next instalment of the ‘Bringing Data to Life’ webinar series and discover how we’re using a variety of linked data to better understand the interplay between health and work, with the goal of improving the wellbeing of individuals and the economy.

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How suicide statistics are changing

Categories: Health, Office for National Statistics, ONS, Population
People talking in support group

A change in the standard of proof for how suicides are recorded that occurred in 2018 and increasing delays in the time taken for suicides to be registered have created challenges for ONS in communicating our suicide statistics. In this blog, David Mais, Head of Mortality Statistics, explores how these developments are changing our releases.  

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