By the Economist Intelligence Unit (2012)
This report, sponsored by Pfizer, investigates the challenges and pressures that an ageing population puts on healthcare systems and economies worldwide, and how eight countries: Brazil, China, India, Japan, Russia, South Africa, the UK and the US are promoting preventive care and healthy ageing.
By the Housing Learning & Improvement Network (September 2012)
This publication assesses the progress of health and wellbeing boards in adopting telecare and telehealth. It also lays out opportunities that these innovations represent to local boards as they develop their role as strategic enablers and system leaders across health, care and wellbeing.
By The Young Foundation (2012)
This report looks at participation in sport and physical activity among young people in England. It sets out the reasons why participation rates are low and provides a four-point plan to get more people active.
By the National Obesity Observatory (2012)
The SEF for dietary interventions aims to describe and explain the information that should be collected in any evaluation of an intervention that aims to improve dietary intake or associated behaviour. It is aimed at interventions that work at individual or group level, not at population level.
By Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (2012)
The authors’ objectives were to review the effectiveness of interventions to promote physical activity conducted in the hours immediately after school among young people. They concluded that limitations in study methods and problems with intervention implementation may explain the lack of effectiveness observed for interventions to promote physical activity among young people in the after-school setting. They stated that further research was needed. Their conclusions appear reliable and recommendations for further research appropriate.
By Department of Transport (August 2012)
This is a new statistical release which presents information on walking and cycling amongst adults (aged 16 and over) in England, by local area. The statistics in this release are based on results from the Active People Survey (APS), an annual household telephone survey administered by Sport England. The APS is designed to measure recreation but includes questions about all cycling and walking activity. The APS covers more than 160,000 persons, which is sufficient to enable detailed analysis at local authority level.
By The King’ s Fund (August 2012)
People’s lifestyles – whether they smoke, how much they drink, what they eat, whether they take regular exercise – affect their health and mortality. It is well known that each of these lifestyle risk factors is unequally distributed in the population. Less is known about how these behaviours co-occur or cluster in the population and about how these patterns of multiple lifestyle risk have been evolving over time. This paper considers this in the context of the English population and sets out the implications for public health policy and practice that flow from the findings. It reviews the current evidence on multiple lifestyle risks and analyses data from the Health Survey for England on the distribution of these risks in the adult population and how this is changing over time.
By The Royal College of Physicians (2012)
This project aims to facilitate faster implementation of NICE public health guidance for the workplace by NHS trusts. Telephone interviews were conducted with 22 acute and mental health trusts around the country that have made progress in implementing the NICE guidance for the workplace. The second phase of the project will involve meeting with 40 trusts that have made less progress, and offering action planning support to help further this implementation. The experience of the 22 trusts interviewed will be shared and examples of good practice will continue to be collected from the trusts to be visited. An updated report will be produced in November 2012.
Duncanson, K et al. BMC Public Health, 2012; 12: 564
The Feeding Healthy Food to Kids (FHFK) Randomised Control Trial (RCT) examines the impact of providing low cost, self-directed nutrition and parenting resources to rural parents, on child dietary intake and parent-child feeding practices.
By The Rand Corporation (2012)
Walking for Health is a physical activity intervention with the primary purpose of making a positive difference to people’s physical health. This report presents research into the economic costs of delivering the Walking for Health programme. These include financial (or accounting) costs and opportunity costs, which are the values of the foregone costs that could have been dedicated some other objective, based on a small sample of schemes representative of the variety across the programme as a whole.