Category: Healthy Settings

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Children Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Healthy Settings Oral Health Physical Activity Well-Being

How active are our children? Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study

Griffiths, LJ. et al. BMJ Open, 2013; 3:e002893

These findings showed that only half of 7-year-old children in the UK achieve recommended levels of physical activity, with significant gender, ethnic and geographic variations. The report states that further longitudinal studies are needed to better understand the relevance of these patterns for long-term health and wellbeing. It also recommends that in the meantime, population-wide efforts to boost physical activity among young people are needed, and will be reliant on a broad range of policy interventions.

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Care of the Elderly Health Promotion Health Protection (Emergency planning Healthy Settings seasonal mortality)

The World Health Report 2013: research vital to universal health coverage

By World Health Organisation (2013)

WHO calls on all countries to invest in and produce research to develop universal health coverage tailored to their country needs. “The world health report 2013: research for universal health coverage” is launched today.

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Accident Prevention Care of the Elderly Community Safety Healthy Settings Patient Experience Patient Safety Safeguarding Secondary Care

A promise to learn: a commitment to act: improving the safety of patients in England

By National Advisory Group on the Safety of Patients in England (2013)

This report is the result of the Berwick Review which looked at patient safety following the publication of the Francis Report into the breakdown of care at Mid Staffordshire Hospitals. It highlights the main problems affecting patient safety in the NHS and makes recommendations to address them.

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Healthy Settings Value

Helping people live better for longer: a guide to the Department of Health's role and and purpose post April 2013

By Department of Health (July 2013)

This guide provides an overview of the Department of Health’s new role from April 2013. It includes information on operations, values, organisation and governance. It also looks at relationships with partner organisations and their roles in the new health and care system.

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Health Promotion Healthy Settings Oral Health Physical Activity Socially Disadvantaged Groups

Physical activity promotion in socially disadvantaged groups: principles for action

By WHO (July 2013)

Scientific evidence shows that physical inactivity is a leading risk factor for ill health, and that these groups tend to have low levels of activity. This policy summary and full report on promoting physical activity in socially disadvantaged groups aims to provide principles for targeted intervention.

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Children Health Promotion Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Healthy Settings Nutrition Obesity Young People

The school food plan

By Henry Dimbleby & John Vincent (July 2013)

Almost a fifth of UK children are obese by the time they leave primary school. Good food provision in schools has been shown to lead not only to healthier children, but to improved attainment. This report sets out a plan to transform what children eat at school, and how they learn about food. It includes clear actions for government and for head teachers. The independent school food plan website provides information and resources to support these actions.

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Healthy Settings

The solid facts: health literacy

By WHO (2013)

This publication makes the case for policy action to strengthen health literacy. Evidence, including the results of the European Health Literacy
Survey, is presented that supports a wider and relational whole-of-society approach to health literacy that considers both an individual’s level of health literacy and the complexities of the contexts within which people act. The data from the European Health Literacy Survey show
that nearly half the Europeans surveyed have inadequate or problematic health literacy. Weak health literacy skills are associated with riskier
behaviour, poorer health, less self-management and more hospitalization and costs. Strengthening health literacy has been shown to build individual and community resilience, help address health inequities and improve health and well-being. Practical and effective ways public health and other sectoral authorities and advocates can take action to strengthen health literacy in a variety of settings are identified. Specific evidence is presented for educational settings, workplaces, marketplaces, health systems, new and traditional media and political arenas.

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Care of the Elderly CVD Finance Health Protection (Emergency planning Healthy Settings Licensing Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Planning Respiratory Disease seasonal mortality) Value

More than medicine

By KPMG International (2013)

This report argues that ring-fencing budgets may not be enough to help the NHS deliver the support required by an ageing population, as unhealthy lifestyles and the number of patients suffering from multiple long-term conditions continue to take their toll on the UK’s healthcare services. It states that a complete overhaul of the healthcare operating model is needed if the NHS is to deliver better patient outcomes and care at lower costs. Key to this transformation, as pressure also increases to deliver higher quality care for less, will be the life sciences sector aligning its interests by partnering to share costs, data and risk to improve the value and effectiveness of the therapies offered to patients.

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Healthy Settings Licensing Planning

Public Health England: local health

By Public Health England (2013)

This online tool that presents data on populations in England, has been updated with new indicators and an improved interface. It enables users to see how the indicators vary across England at the level of upper or lower tier local authorities, as well as by wards using maps, summary charts and more detailed reports to show how local results compare with the national average for each indicator.

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Children Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Healthy Settings

Bright futures: local children, local approaches: good practice in children's centres

By Local Government Association (June 2013)

This publication outlines case studies showing how councils up and down the country are using children’s centres to help deliver early intervention through integrated health provision.

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