Pedalling your way to better health
Cycling is not just great for your health - travelling to work on your bike can mean a faster, less stressful and more efficient daily commute. This week is Bike Week in the UK and it’s a great opportunity to …
Health and Wellbeing
Posts about the work of the Health and Wellbeing directorate
How improving your diet is good for your health and can help tackle climate change
Many of us eat over 90g of red and processed meat a day – we should be moving that down towards the population average of 70g a day. Meanwhile only 30% of us are meeting the 5-a-day recommendation for fruit …
Reducing smoking in secure mental health units
At any one time up to 7,000 people in England are in a secure mental health unit. The units provide care and treatment to people during an incredibly difficult period of their life and should offer an environment of support, helping people …
Dementia Awareness Week 2015: Add life to your years and years to your life
This week is Dementia Awareness Week; a welcome opportunity for us at PHE to share what we know about dementia, that it affects over 800,000 people in the UK, and to highlight what we can all do as individuals to reduce …
Giving women high quality information to make choices during pregnancy
The screening offered to women during pregnancy provides an important opportunity for mother and baby to get a health check. In the NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme (FASP) the aim is to give women high quality information at an early …
Putting pharmacy on the public health map
Public health needs pharmacists and their teams. We know that over one million people visit pharmacies every day for a range of things: to buy products, ask for advice, dispense medicines. That’s an enormous opportunity to promote health across communities. …
It’s time for more conversation
Today the Royal Society for Public Health and Public Health England published the results of our survey into how allied health professionals (AHP's) participate in healthy conversations with their clients. The results show a promising engagement in public health with …
Communities matter for health
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Kevin Fenton, Posted on:
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Health and Wellbeing, Promoting place-based public health systems
Communities, both in the sense of place and in social groupings, are a fundamental resource for health and wellbeing. Good social connections and supportive relationships with friends and family are known to be vital, but so is having a voice …
Improving health equality for gay, bisexual and other MSM – why now and how?
It may be difficult for younger people to imagine our world less than fifty years ago, where people in the UK were criminalised for their sexual orientation. There has been major legislative reform for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) …
A Young Person’s Perspective on Public Health
Listening to what young people tell us is important to them is key in how we develop our priorities and work programmes. It also played an important part in the creation of our Young Person’s Health and Wellbeing Framework, which …