Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

Welcome to the Wandsworth Observatory: the home of the JSNA

What is the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment?

"A systematic method of reviewing the health and well being of a population, leading to agreed commissioning priorities that will improve health and wellbeing outcomes and reduce inequalities."

JSNA 2010 (complete document) ( PDF, 2.41 MB)
JSNA summary ( PPT, 2.89 MB)
Health and care needs for Wandworth ( PDF, 139 KB)

How can we improve the JSNA?

Please take our survey to tell us if we have identified the key areas for joint work in Wandsworth.

Resources

Life stages

A JSNA can be broken down into life stages:

Key JSNA Messages for Wandsworth

Demographic influences on planning

Physical activity

Physical inactivity is a key risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and diabetes. Physical activity is a key to maintaining independence in older life.

Healthy eating

Healthy eating each day can help to prevent heart diseases and some cancers.

Smoking

Tobacco use causes disease and premature mortality.

Mental well being

For more information on common mental health problems and for tips on how you can maintain good mental health and wellbeing, visit the NHS Choices website.

Overview of mental health including depression and dementia

Your local NHS has developed a number of initiatives to support people with depression and other common mental health issues

Five steps to mental well being