Month: April 2019

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Healthy Settings Licensing Long-Term Conditions Mortality Planning

Improving the public's health: local government delivers

By Local Government Association (2019)

This report states that since taking over responsibility for public health in 2013, councils have maintained or improved 80 per cent of public health outcomes in England. At the same time, councils nationally have had their funding cut by 49 per cent in real terms, between 2010/11 and 2017/18. It calls for the government to reverse these budget declines in the forthcoming Spending Review to ensure that public health services continue to flourish and alleviate cost pressures on the NHS.

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Cancer Healthy Settings Nutrition Obesity

Paying the price: New evidence on the link between price promotions, purchasing of less healthy food and drink, and overweight and obesity in Great Britain

By Cancer Research UK (2019)

The study, which looked at the habits of more than 16,000 British households, found that people whose shopping baskets contained around 40-80 per cent of goods on special offer have more than a 50 per cent increased chance of being obese.

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Library

New Resource for Public Health Lancashire

You now have access to BMJ Best Practice

(Funded by Health Care Libraries Unit North)

With extensive coverage of the most commonly-occurring conditions, Best Practice can be relied on to answer your clinical questions.

BMJ Best Practice uses the latest evidence-based research, guidelines and expert opinion to offer step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.

You will need your Public Health Lancashire Athens username to access this resource.

A link to this resource can also be found in the online resources page of this blog.