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Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Rd,  London NW1 2BE September 7th 2017 – January 14th 2018. Considers the role of graphic design in healthcare messaging and how it has been used to persuade, inform and empower. Explore the relationship between graphic design and...

World Hepatitis Day on the 28th July aimed to add momentum to the WHO’s first global health sector strategy on viral hepatitis for 2016-21. Its goal is elimination of hepatitis by 2030. See also the World Health Summit on Hepatitis. According to the WHO: 1.Viral...

Over 20 years ago Antonovsky proposed salutogenic theory to guide health promotion. His 1996 paper has been one of the most read in the journal Health Promotion International. Garcia-Moya and Morgan’s recent review article assesses the current theoretical status of...

The Global Matrix of child physical activity based on  38 countries placed England, Wales and Scotland as amongst the worst for children's physical activity with South Africa, New Zealand and Slovenia the best performing. At the start of the new school year it is...

The paper by Woodall and Tattersfield explores prisoner and staff views of the current smoking policy in English and Welsh prisons (a partial ban permitting smoking in prison cells) and gauges perceptions of the implications of the forthcoming policy change which...

Tobacco Control Plan is needed to fight the fight the power of big tobacco The Institute of Health Promotion and Education endorses the need for a new Tobacco Control Plan. Smoking is strongly associated with socioeconomic disadvantage. Unemployed people, those...

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus  has set out 5 main action areas for his period of office: Achieving universal health coverage Strengthening the capacity of national authorities and local communities to detect, prevent and manage health emergencies; Improving the...

Doctors can act as advocates on health effects of poverty, says BMA "Doctors are quite right to express concern about the negative effect that inequality can have on physical and mental health, and life expectancy.(1) There is now a vast body of literature on...

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Journal article by the President of the Faculty of Public Health. Background This article describes the current state of the health of the public in England and the state of the public health professional service and systems. Sources of data Data sources are wide...

An approach developed in Australia and being adopted around the world that recognises the importance of community involvement and social attitudes to dying and death in the search for a 'good death for all'. Read...