Local authority public health
Influencing the food environment to ensure that more and healthier options are available, accessible and affordable can only be accomplished through a collaborative approach. This blog outlines how addressing the food environment is part of a local whole systems approach to obesity.
The latest edition of Health Matters, PHE's professional resource, focuses on a taking a whole systems approach to addressing obesity using PHE's newly published guide. This blog provides a summary of the full edition's content.
An urgent and costly public health problem During the 1950s, smog (a toxic combination of soot and sulphur dioxide) was commonplace in UK cities and a major source of disease. Since the Clean Air Act of 1956, the character of …
We've published a new ‘Prioritisation Framework’, a strategic planning resource for local authorities. In this blog, our Chief Economist Brian Ferguson, and PHE North East Centre Director Peter Kelly, answer questions about how the Framework can inform investment decisions. What …
You don’t have to dig too deep into the statistics to see how homelessness affects public health, but it can be difficult to work out what to do about it.
Today is ‘Our Day’, an opportunity for local authorities across England to discuss and celebrate what they do in a typical day.
Today is ‘Our Day’, - a chance for local authorities across the land to discuss and celebrate what they do in a typical day. And after spending the last 3 years visiting every part of the country and speaking to …
The latest official statistics on drug-related deaths in England showed the highest number of substance misuse related death since these records began and highlights a worrying rise in the number of older, more vulnerable drug users dying from heroin overdose. …
Having started my career as a trainee accountant at South Tyneside Council nearly 25 years ago and returned after a time elsewhere in the public sector to have a stint as Head of Finance, local government still feels like my …
