Hertfordshire Public Health Festival of Evidence

Try the Evidence Pie - A simple way to understand and use different types of evidence for better decisions. We have advice to help you reflect on the evidence you collect and the gaps you could fill - introducing the evidence pie.

Evidencing the need: use this StoryMap to find reliable sources of health and wellbeing evidence to support your work in Hertfordshire

StoryMaps – See our collections of interactive guides to health and wellbeing evidence in Hertfordshire, including tips on where to start and how to use them:

• Evidence the Need: informing Hertfordshire’s health– tips and examples for finding the evidence of the need for your services before you start.
• Evidence into Action: Show Your Impact!– reminders on aspects of data collection, research and evaluation, and promoting the recommendations for your work.

Find our Evaluation toolbox, a range of useful resources and our Evaluation Reports here: Evaluation (hertshealthevidence.org)

Contact our Research and Evaluation Team: PH.Evaluation@hertfordshire.gov.uk

Slides and recordings from previous Festivals of Evidence

• Introduction to Evaluation
• Introduction to Evaluation webinar recording
• Measuring Objectives
• Measuring Objectives webinar recording
• The Research and Evaluation Team Poster

Here are tips on data collection and an effective evaluation process from research and evaluation officers:

• Evidence into Action video mini series Episode 1 - Data collection
• Evidence into Action video mini series Episode 2 - An effective evaluation process

These YouTube guides from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) may also be helpful:

• What is research and why does it matter
• How to get involved in research in a local authority
• Why health determinants are the Council’s business

Find our Evaluation toolbox, a range of useful resources and our Evaluation Reports here: Evaluation (hertshealthevidence.org)

Contact our Research and Evaluation Team: PH.Evaluation@hertfordshire.gov.uk

View a collection of research and evaluation StoryMaps here: Evidence into Action: Show Your Impact! It includes reminders on aspects of data collection, research and evaluation, and promoting the recommendations for your work.

Slides and recordings from previous Festivals of Evidence

• Evaluation of Covid-19 Outreach Vaccination Clinics poster
• Evaluation of Covid-19 Outreach Vaccination Clinics presentation
• Evaluation of Covid-19 Outreach Vaccination Clinics webinar recording

• Evaluation of the Assistive Technology Pilot presentation
• Evaluation of the Assistive Technology Pilot webinar recording

Evaluation and Research Posters

• Research and Evaluation: Who we are and what we do
• The COVID-19 Outbreak Plan – A Qualitative Interview Study
• Barriers to Covid-19 Self-Isolation Research
• Community-shaped approaches to promote adherence to COVID-19 health protective behaviour and vaccine uptake
• Evaluating the COVID-19 Rough Sleeper Multi-Disciplinary Team Model
• HertsHelp Evaluation

Evaluation and Research recorded presentations

• NHS Health Checks evaluation.
• Evidence into Action video mini series Episode 1
• Evidence into Action video mini series Episode 2
• Evaluation of Herts Healthy Workplace Programme presentation
• Evaluation of wellbeing website and coaching service for Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care System workforce presentation
• It’s Never Too Late To Be Active 2022 Evaluation presentation

Hertfordshire's Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) looks at the specific health and social care needs of our local population and points out areas of inequality. It helps public bodies decide what type of local services to commission.

The JSNA contains a variety of needs assessments, each looking at a different issue. They are regularly updated to reflect the changing needs of the population.

Hertfordshire Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

Contact our Joint Strategic Needs Assessment Team: JSNA@hertfordshire.gov.uk

Slides and recordings from previous Festivals of Evidence

• Introduction to the JSNA Process
• Data Visualisation
• Collaborative Working
• Evidence into Action: How to be a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) Geek
• Evidence into Action: How to be on a JSNA Working Group
  
  

Posters about the JSNA

• From Evidence to Action: How the Evidence Pie helped shape recommendations in the VAWG JSNA
• What is the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment?
• Joint Strategic Needs Assessment: What’s in them?
• Joint Strategic Needs Assessment: Other products and services

The Public Health Evidence and Intelligence teams have access to datasets covering the health and wellbeing of Hertfordshire residents. The teams also use a wide range of data sourced from other departments within Hertfordshire County Council as well as other agencies, such as the NHS and Public Health England.

Find out more About our data (hertshealthevidence.org)

Search for resources by different geographies, document types and topic themes Data tools & reports (hertshealthevidence.org)

See the Epidemiology team’s Service Offer to explore the different ways they can support your work, from evidence to decision support, monitoring and systems solutions. Have a data request? Make an enquiry and we’ll get back to you Make an enquiry (hertshealthevidence.org)

Tools and dashboards

• Create a map of Hertfordshire using your own data
• Explore how the wider determinants of health relate to health outcomes to inform where to target health interventions
• The Young People’s Health and Wellbeing Survey dashboard
• View information on weight and the local food environments across Hertfordshire
• Use the Hertfordshire Health Indices to understand what drives differences in health across Hertfordshire, and plan to address these
• Explore risk of poor-quality housing across Hertfordshire, and how that correlates with respiratory health
• Use the Evidence Pie Strength Visualisation tool to create an image that represents the strength of your evidence, with tips for how to improve it

Posters

• Making Better Use of Data
• Population Health Management
• Epidemiology Surveillance and Modelling Evidence
• The Decision Support Programme
  
  

Tutorial videos

• How to use the Fingertips website
• How to use Hertfordshire Young People’s Health and Wellbeing Survey Dashboard 
• How to use the Local Health website
• Evidence into Action: Using data to make a case for tackling childhood obesity
• The Decision Support Programme. This programme is now managed by Public Health Evidence and Intelligence, so if you are interested in this topic, please contact ph.intelligence@hertfordshire.gov.uk.
  
  

Key Sport & Physical Activity Trends in Hertfordshire

(Presented by Herts Sports and Physical Activity Partnership and PressRed)

• Key Sport and Physical Activity Trends In Hertfordshire presentation
• Key Sport and Physical Activity Trends In Hertfordshire recording

Latest resources and insight are available from the Herts Sports and Physical Activity Partnership at Evaluation and Insight - Herts Sports Partnership (sportinherts.org.uk).

There are also Physical Activity resources in the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment at JSNA documents (hertfordshire.gov.uk). Topics include Barriers and Enablers to Physical Activity in Older Adults, and Physical Activity and Covid.

Hertfordshire Public Health Masterclasses are presented by Hertfordshire Public Health Connect, a partnership between the University of Hertfordshire and Hertfordshire County Council Public Health Department.

Hertfordshire Public Health Connect aims to bring together information about excellent public health research, practice and education for all professionals and students involved in Public Health in Hertfordshire and the East of England. 

Herts Public Health Connect – Herts Public Health Connect (hertsphconnect.org)

Recordings and slides are available at this page: Masterclasses – Herts Public Health Connect

Smoke Free Generation – January 2025

The session included what action is being taken in Hertfordshire to tackle vaping in young people and to reduce illegal vapes for sale in Hertfordshire. It also looks at what the evidence from research tells us about the best way to design services and interventions that will reach smokers and support them to quit successfully.

Healthy Ageing – May 2023

Improving the health and lives of older people, including those living with dementia is a now global public health priority.

Further information about Healthy Ageing from partner organisations:

• Live Longer Better in Hertfordshire Campaign
• Herts Sports Partnership “We are undefeatable in Hertfordshire” campaign
  
  

Barriers faced by the Gypsy, Roma & Traveller communities in Herts & the UK (presented by Hertfordshire Public Health Connect) – May 2023

Overview of the challenges and barriers faced by the Gypsy, Roma & Traveller communities in Hertfordshire & the UK.

We have a set of tools you can download for free here. There are tools and dashboards that you can use to create your own products, or to explore local intelligence on health and wider determinants of health to support your reporting.

If you would like further resources, a personal presentation or support at one of your team meetings, please email ph.intelligence@hertfordshire.gov.uk.