Month: July 2019

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Healthy Settings Licensing Planning Well-Being

Population well-being portal

By e-Learning for Healthcare (2019)

The Population Wellbeing Portal is free to access by anyone who can positively impact public health and wellbeing.

The Portal offers free access to education, training and professional development resources, to help deliver improvements in public health and prevention.  Providing a central location for numerous e-learning resources, reading material, guidance, toolkits and videos, factsheets and many more resources relating to population health.

The Portal brings together material from multiple sources. This includes resources from Health Education England (HEE), Public Health England (PHE); the Academy for Public Health for London and Kent, Surrey, Sussex, the Faculty of Public Health as well as many others.  It links with All Our Health, PHE’s framework of evidence to guide healthcare professionals in preventing illness, protecting health and promoting wellbeing

Click here to access the portal

Categories
CYP Healthcare Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Nutrition Obesity

A recipe for action: using wider evidence for a healthier UK

By Health Foundation (2019)

  • A selection of essays written by individuals from a diverse range of industries and specialisms, reflecting on the case study of child obesity.
  • Together they illustrate how different disciplines and professional practices conceptualise evidence and how they reason about moving from evidence to taking action.
  • They also show that a broad range of disciplines and professional practices share similar goals.

Click here to read this report

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Licensing Planning STPs

Designing integrated care systems (ICSs) in England

By NHS England (2019)

The NHS Long-Term Plan set the ambition that every part of the country should be an integrated care system by 2021. It encourages all organisations in each health and care system to join forces, so they are better able to improve the health of their populations and offer well-coordinated efficient services to those who need them. This overview is for all the health and care leaders working to make that ambition a reality, whether in NHS acute or primary care, physical or mental health, local government or the voluntary sector. It sets out the different levels of management that make up an integrated care system, describing their core functions, the rationale behind them and how they will work together.

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Accident Prevention Community Safety Healthy Settings

Environmental health inequalities in Europe: Second assessment report

By WHO (2019)

Environmental conditions are a major determinant of health and well-being, but they are not shared equally across the population. Higher levels of environmental risk are often found in disadvantaged population subgroups. This assessment report considers the distribution of environmental risks and
injuries within countries and shows that unequal environmental conditions, risk exposures and related health outcomes affect citizens daily in all settings where people live, work and spend their time.
The report documents the magnitude of environmental health inequalities within countries through 19 inequality indicators on urban, housing and working conditions, basic services and injuries. Inequalities in risks and outcomes occur in all countries in the WHO European Region, and the latest
evidence confirms that socially disadvantaged population subgroups are those most affected by environmental hazards, causing avoidable health effects and contributing to health inequalities.
The results call for more environmental and intersectoral action to identify and protect those who already carry a disproportionate environmental burden. Addressing inequalities in environmental risk will help to mitigate health inequalities and contribute to fairer and more socially cohesive societies.

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