Current Awareness
Suicide awareness materials: do they help people with suicidal ideation?
The Mental Elf; 2020.
(Hanzla Amir and Derek Tracy summarise a recent online randomised controlled trial on the effects of suicide awareness materials on people who feel suicidal, which finds that the Papageno effect is real and that stories of hope and recovery can help.)
Whole systems approach to obesity.
Public Health England (PHE); 2020.
(A guide and set of resources to support local authorities with implementing a whole systems approach to address obesity and promote a healthy weight.
7 December 2020: Added ‘Engaging NHS system leaders in whole systems approaches to physical activity’.)
Supporting public health: children, young people and families.
Public Health England (PHE); 2020.
(Documents to support local authorities and providers in commissioning and delivering maternal and child public health services from preconception up to 24 years. 8 December 2020: Updated to include the 6 maternity high impact area guides.)
How England will end new cases of HIV: final report and recommendations.
HIV Commission; 2020.
(The HIV Commission is an ambitious, independent process to find the path to ending new HIV transmissions and HIV-attributed deaths in England by 2030. Its report sets out 20 achievable and evidence-based actions that need to be taken if this goal is to be met.)
Obesity Profile: December 2020 update.
Public Health England (PHE); 2020.
(Obesity Profile online data tool: update with new data from the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) for academic year 2019 to 2020.)
What people are telling us: a summary, July – September 2020 Healthwatch, 2020
(Between July and September 2020, more than 38,082 people shared their experiences of using health and social care with Healthwatch. This briefing is a summary of the key issues that the public are telling us about, including access to NHS dental care; the support provided in care homes; and accessing Covid-19 tests.)
Interventions to prevent intimate partner and sexual violence Public Health England (PHE), 2020
(A guidance resource from PHE to help tackle the root causes of violence and
change behaviours that lead to violence. It includes a summary of research and good practice in bystander interventions.)