Ageing well: how can we make longer lives healthier?
Across the world, people are living longer. A baby girl born in the UK today can expect to live to the age of 83; for a boy, it is 79. Globally, the number of people living today aged 60 and …
World Heart Day - how can we prevent cardiovascular disease?
Today is World Heart Day – an important opportunity to put the spotlight on cardiovascular disease, which still remains the second highest cause of death in England. Many of these deaths are preventable, and today PHE has published a new …
Getting our teeth into child oral health
No child should suffer from tooth decay, but it's still a significant problem in this country - a problem which nearly a quarter of children (24.7%) start school with. It is also one of the most common reasons for hospital …
Action on cardiovascular disease: getting serious about prevention
Later this week, to coincide with World Heart Day on Thursday, we are due to publish our first ever stocktake of work the organisation is undertaking to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD). This includes the release of a new version of our …
A look at the sexual health of young Londoners
Last week we published our Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) Spotlight report for London. This annual report looks at the epidemiology of STIs in London residents, breaking down data by infections, age, gender, ethnicity and local authority of residence. Looking at …
Health Matters: Standard packs - the experience from ‘down under’
The latest edition of Health Matters is about standard packs and seizing the moment to help more smokers quit. I'd like to thank Dr Colin Mendelsohn, tobacco treatment specialist and Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine …
The week at PHE: Online highlights and national conference, w/c 12 Sep
We’re pleased to bring you our round-up highlighting some of PHE’s online activity from the past week, as well as a look back at our 2016 national conference. Here’s your chance to catch up on what you might have missed …
Health Matters: Tobacco standard packs – seizing the moment to support smokers to quit
Welcome to the latest edition of Health Matters, a resource for public health professionals, which focuses on how tobacco standard packs can not only help to prevent the next generation of smokers but also encourage existing smokers to quit. Think …
Understanding the relationship between health, work and worklessness
Worklessness is an important public health issue at both local and national level and is highlighted in many health and wellbeing strategies, devolution plans and in the Five Year Forward View and Sustainability Transformation Plans for the NHS. With combined …
More people are living with and beyond cancer than ever before
Today at the PHE conference the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS), in partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support, released new figures showing that there were 1.87 million people living with and beyond a cancer diagnosis in England at the …