Reducing salt to tackle preventable diseases
Our latest assessment of the food industry’s progress towards meeting salt reduction targets shows a mixed picture. Find out more about the progress that has been made to date.
Health Matters: Reducing health inequalities in mental illness
Read the latest edition of Health Matters, our professional resource, for advice on how to deliver and commission services for those with severe mental illness.
Duncan Selbie's Christmas message and look ahead to 2019
PHE’s Chief Executive Duncan Selbie reflects on an eventful 2018 and looks to the year ahead in his final Friday message of the year.
Why have increases in life expectancy slowed down in England?
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Allan Baker, Justine Fitzpatrick and Faith Ege, Posted on:
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Health Improvement, Public health data
Find out why improvements in mortality rates and life expectancy in England have slowed down considerably since 2011 for both men and women.
Duncan Selbie's Friday message - 7 December 2018
This week the Friday message includes our work programme with Pakistan, funding to help improve the lives of those affected by alcohol, and London becoming the first city to achieve 95-95-95, surpassing the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets for HIV diagnosis, treatment and viral suppression.
From data to decisions: Building blocks for population health intelligence systems
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Jake Abbas, Gareth Wrench and Matt Hennessey, Posted on:
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Data blog, Public health data
Find out why PHE is developing a framework to draw attention to the skills, knowledge and system enablers that are required to support a data-to-decisions journey.
Duncan Selbie's Friday message - 30 November 2018
Our CEO's weekly message covers important discussions about prevention from the Singapore ministerial conference on diabetes, changes to our National Infection Service leadership, our Disease Detectives series and ten years of the Climate Change Act.
35 years as a real Disease Detective
Neil Bentley, Head of Specialist Microbiology Technical Services for Public Health England, talks about his life as a disease detective including his time in Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak.
Improving the evaluation of digital public health
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Kassandra Karpathakis and Felix Greaves, Posted on:
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Digital, Public health data
Measuring the success of digital health interventions is a new challenge. Find out how PHE and other health bodies are developing a way to find out which digital health interventions work and which don’t.
The Climate Change Act: 10 years on
This week the Climate Change Act is ten years old. While the public health impacts from a changing climate in the UK may not feel quite so immediate as elsewhere in the world, there is still much to be done if we’re to minimise the damage.