Housing is core to our lives and a place where we spend a large amount of our time. The quality of housing therefore plays a critical role in creating and maintaining good health, as well as helping individuals to recover …
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.
People living in the most deprived areas can expect to spend nearly 20 fewer years in good health compared with those in the least deprived areas. This fact is avoidable, unjust and summarises the scale of health inequality in England …
Colleagues from across the north will be coming together this week for our annual ‘Due North’ conference.
Next week PHE will host our fifth annual conference at the University of Warwick. As we prepare to bring together the public health community I’m taking a look at three key topics which are at the forefront of public health …
A faith centre working to improve the health and wellbeing of the community is not a new concept, from the earliest days of Islam we find the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Mosque in Medina was a community meeting place, a centre …
Reducing health inequalities means giving everyone the same opportunities to lead a healthy life, no matter where they live or who they are.
"When people are unemployed, people can just assume that they are unemployable, and that is not ever the case. We take people onto a work placement and they do deliver for us an element of work. We do want to …
This week London celebrates Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Pride, and across the country we’ll see Pride marches and celebrations that bring together LGB&T communities, their friends, families and allies. Pride marches are often a contentious subject and there are …
Partnership working is a critical tool to addressing health inequalities - the causes of the deep-seated inequalities we have as a nation cannot be addressed by any one agency working alone. Different skills, different relationships and different approaches need to …
