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Reducing preventable deaths

Posts relating to PHE Priority 1: Reducing preventable deaths

The ordinary person: measuring height and weight in adults

Heather Lodge, Clare Griffiths, Caroline Hancock and Hywell Dinsdale, 5 March 2014 - Chief Knowledge Officer, Public Health Outcomes Framework, Reducing preventable deaths

“To tall men I’m a midget and to short men I’m a giant; to the skinny ones I’m a fat man and to the fat ones I’m a thin man….. In fact I’m quite ordinary.” So says the Ordinary Man …

Fighting cancer with information

Jem Rashbass, 30 January 2014 - A single knowledge and intelligence service, Chief Knowledge Officer, Reducing preventable deaths

...a scheme called The Patient Portal, with support from charities the BrainsTrust and Cancer Research UK, which offers individual patients access to their own information. We also produce an online...

Making HIV testing part of how we care for ourselves

Paul Cosford, 2 December 2013 - Health and Wellbeing, Health Protection, Protecting the country's health, Reducing preventable deaths

HIV remains a major source of harm to people’s health, much of which is avoidable. There are more HIV tests being performed in England than at any time in the...

Defining and delivering integrated public health

Sally Warren, 25 November 2013 - Reducing preventable deaths

...public’s health has a key part to play in successful integration to drive health and well-being, other than to only manage acute sickness. For an individual to be truly in...

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