Category: Physical Activity

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Accident Prevention Alcohol behaviour change Community Safety Health Protection (Emergency planning Healthy Settings Long-Term Conditions Mortality Nutrition Obesity Oral Health Physical Activity seasonal mortality) Tobacco & Drugs

Tackling multiple unhealthy risk factors: emerging lessons from practice

By The King’s Fund (2018)

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  • Previous research by The King’s Fund has shown that unhealthy behaviours cluster in the population. Around seven in ten adults do not follow guidelines on tobacco use, alcohol consumption, healthy diet or physical activity, yet most behaviour change services address these behaviours separately, not reflecting the reality of people’s lives.
  • This report shares learning and insight from services that are using innovative ways to address the problem of multiple unhealthy risk factors in their populations. It draws on interviews and information from eight case studies in local authorities and the NHS and updates the evidence base on tackling multiple unhealthy risk factors.
  • Most services included in the report are local authority led and are integrated health and wellbeing services. These provide behavioural advice and support to people across a range of different behaviours, including smoking, weight management and physical activity.
  • The NHS is also addressing multiple unhealthy behaviours. We set out learning from two hospitals supporting individuals with multiple risk factors.
  • The evidence for these behaviour change services to draw on, in the context of multiple unhealthy risk factors, remains limited. These services are in a position to develop the evidence base on how best to address multiple unhealthy behaviours.
  • The report makes recommendations on how services can develop and share evidence, and for how the Department of Health and Social Care and Public Health England can support further innovation in such services.
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Healthy Settings Long-Term Conditions Oral Health Physical Activity

Urban green space interventions and health

By WHO (2017)

This report aims to fill the knowledge gap on the benefits of urban green spaces. It outlines the results of an evidence review and an assessment of local case studies on urban green space interventions, and finds that increasing or improving urban green space can deliver positive health, social and environmental outcomes for all population groups, particularly among lower socioeconomic status groups. It highlights the need to include more health and equity outcomes in studies on green space interventions in future.

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Health Improvement Healthy Settings Licensing Nutrition Obesity Oral Health Physical Activity Planning

Green space and health

By Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) (2016)

A range of bodies, including government agencies, have promoted the possible physical and mental health benefits of access to green space. This briefing summarises the evidence for physical and mental health benefits from contact with nature, such as reducing rates of non-communicable diseases, and the challenges for urban green spaces.

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Health Promotion Healthy Settings Oral Health Physical Activity Public Health Well-Being

Public health transformation three years on: extending influence to promote health and wellbeing

By Local Government Association (2016)

This compilation of case studies shows how local authorities continue to make progress on improving health and wellbeing and tackling health inequalities since public health was formally transferred from the NHS in April 2013. These case studies were chosen because they show a range of ways in which public health in councils is approaching its new roles. They include councils spread across England, covering both rural and urban environments and with varying degrees of deprivation and affluence.

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CYP Healthcare Nutrition Obesity Oral Health Physical Activity

What works in schools and colleges to increase physical activity?

By Public Health England (2015)

This briefing provides an overview from the evidence about what works in schools and colleges to increase levels of physical activity among children and young people. It is aimed at head teachers, college principals, staff working in education settings, directors of public health and wider partners.

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Children Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Nutrition Obesity Oral Health Physical Activity Young People

Challenging children's inactivity

By Fit for Sport (2015)

In 2014, Fit For Sport conducted a simple physical activity test to assess key indicators of health and physical literacy of primary age children in 80 schools across the UK. This report includes some of the key findings.

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Children Health Promotion Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Obesity Physical Activity Young People

Promoting physical activity for children and young people

By NICE (2015)

A summary of selected new evidence relevant to NICE public health guidance 17 ‘Promoting physical activity for children and young people’ (2009)

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Children Commissioning Good Practice Guidance Local Government Oral Health Physical Activity Young People

Local authorities improving oral health: commissioning better oral health for children and young people: an evidence-informed toolkit for local authorities

By Department of Health (2014)

This guidance aims to support local authorities to commission oral health improvement programmes for children and young people aged up to 19 years. It provides an evidence-informed approach with examples of good practice.

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Guidance Oral Health Physical Activity

Delivering better oral health: an evidence-based toolkit for prevention

By Public Health England (2014)

This guidance provides evidence based interventions and advice on how dental health professionals can improve and maintain the oral and general health of their patients.

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Oral Health Physical Activity Well-Being

Physical activity and the environment – evidence update

By NICE (2014)

This Evidence Update provides a summary of selected new evidence published since the literature search was last conducted for the following NICE guidance:
Physical activity and the environment. NICE public health guidance 8 (2008)

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