Posts about the work of the Health and Wellbeing directorate
If you are reading this blog on a smartphone you are not alone. 62% of UK adults have one, and this is increasing significantly each year. About a quarter of Public Health Matters’ readership access this site from a smartphone …
Monday was World Hepatitis Day, the annual awareness raising day coordinated by the World Hepatitis Alliance. Over 170 organisations who work in the field of viral hepatitis, representing every region of the world are involved, and our own Dr. Helen Harris …
When an older person falls, it can have devastating consequences. Multiplied across the population, it’s a major public health issue. A third of people over 65, and half of people...
...publish two documents focused on these goals this week. Firstly, the National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP) has published a new report, “Components of chlamydia screening & the impact of screening...
This weekend I am devoting to sport! (For the record, it will be some cycling alongside enjoying the current plethora of sport viewing opportunities). This is my R&R following the excitement that was our third week of action (on health …
...The six areas for ‘population health activities’ are: wider determinants of health health improvement and making every contact count (MECC) health protection healthcare public health supporting independence and wellbeing a...
...with their communities on health inequalities. These documents can be taken, used and shared by any public health professional or local authority colleague looking to discuss health inequalities with their...
...2.1 million. Source: Use of electronic cigarettes in Great Britain, ASH, April 2014 http://www.ash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_891.pdf At the same time, Professor Robert West’s Smoking Toolkit Study shows quit attempts are up, success...
...our staff, as well as access to The Big White Wall – an online community where people can talk openly and anonymously about what’s on their mind. Throughout the week...
...across 40 channels simultaneously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfrnWrpPq54 At the centre of the advert is Gina, a former nurse from Liverpool who is living with dementia; a fantastic character and great advocate for...
