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...
The sun was shining on 3,500 guests on Thursday 25 May, as HRH The Duke of York and HRH Princess Eugenie of York hosted RoSPA’s Centenary Garden Party at Buckingham Palace. The safety charity’s supporters, members, award winners, friends and staff enjoyed a royal...
‘Betty, it’s perfectly natural ‘resource on periods and growing up gain PSHE Association Quality mark The resource focuses on menstruation, as well as supporting pupils’ wider learning about growing up and the effect puberty has on girls. The materials consist of...
This report from the Government Health and Education Committee says that schools and colleges struggle to provide adequate time and resources for pupils’ well-being. An increasing number of education providers are having to cut back on mental health services, such...
One in 4 Zimbabweans have some form of mental illness but the country has only very limited psychiatric services. A solution is the ‘friendship’ bench’ which builds on respect for matriarchs. Clinics screen patients for mental illness using a locally developed...
The Government’s draft plan to tackle the UK’s toxic air crisis was published on May 5th and is open to consultation until June 15th. The aim of the plan is to improve air quality by reducing nitrogen dioxide levels (NO2). The options are designed to reduce the...
The Alliance which consists of 41 medical groups, health charities and public health bodies has drawn up a 10 point action plan intended to influence political parties in the run up to the general election. It is urging that whoever wins the election should...