Your guide to PH news, publications and guidance
Welcome to the Public Health Effectiveness Bulletin. Produced each month, the Effectiveness Bulletin is your gateway to key publications to aid evidence-based practice specifically related to Public Health.
This month’s issue contains articles on COVID-19, smoking, women's health, rough sleepers, healthy eating, health protection, health improvement, mental health, health inequalities, gambling, physical activity, children, and homelessness, amongst other subjects.
Latest REACT-1 study findings show rise in COVID-19 infection rates
UK Health Security Agency, 4 November 2021
Interim findings from the latest report of REACT-1, one of the largest studies into coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in England, have been published today. Read more.
Over 8 million people in the UK receive COVID-19 booster jabs
Department of Health and Social Care, 1 November 2021
More than 820,000 boosters have been administered in the last 3 days, as the government urges people to get their booster as soon as possible. Read more.
E-cigarettes could be prescribed on the NHS in world first
Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, 29 October 2021
England could be the first country in the world to prescribe medicinally licensed e-cigarettes to help reduce smoking rates. Read more.
More support for women experiencing the menopause
Department of Health and Social Care, 29 October 2021
Government action to cut the cost of repeatable HRT prescriptions and a new Menopause Taskforce means women experiencing the menopause will be better supported. Read more.
Government announces support for rough sleepers over winter
Department of Health and Social Care, 29 October 2021
£66 million funding will provide safe and warm accommodation over winter. Read more.
New pilot to help people eat better and exercise more
Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, 22 October 2021
Pilot scheme will motivate people to make healthy changes to their lifestyle. Read more.
Advertising blitz to urge public to get flu and COVID-19 vaccines
Department of Health and Social Care, 22 October 2021
National advertising campaign steps up today to encourage people to protect themselves and loved ones from COVID and flu this winter. Read more.
UK government secures ground-breaking COVID-19 antivirals
Department of Health and Social Care, 20 October 2021
The new antivirals could be rolled out through a clinical study from winter. Read more.
Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on the clinically extremely vulnerable population
The Health Foundation, October 2021
Our briefing shows the scale of the challenge of ensuring that the most clinically vulnerable to COVID-19 are kept safe, and in providing high-quality health and social care during the pandemic. It also indicates that there are substantial unmet needs that should be prioritised to ensure that the mental and physical health of this group does not deteriorate further. Read more.
A whole-government approach to improving health
The Health Foundation, October 2021
The government has made several promising commitments that signal a move towards a more joined-up approach to improving health and health equity. This briefing recognises that concerted, holistic action needs to be taken to create the conditions that improve health. It sets out the action that central government needs to take to act purposefully as a system, rather than as a series of individual actors. Read more.
Supporting children and young people with their mental health and emotional wellbeing
Local Government Association, 28 October 2021
The following case studies stand as examples of good practice, success stories and promising initiatives in supporting young people with their mental health. Read more.
New draft guideline to help reduce health inequalities in people experiencing homelessness
NICE, 6 October 2021
NICE and the Centre for Homelessness Impact (CHI) have jointly published a new draft guideline to increase the access people experiencing homelessness have to health and social care services and improve their health outcomes. Read more.
Moving from ‘problem gamblers’ to ‘people with a gambling problem’
Royal Society for Public Health, 3 November 2021
How we describe an issue, and the people affected by it, in turn shapes how we perceive it and the types of actions we consider using. Read more.
UCL and the Royal Society for Public Health launch online course on ‘Arts, Culture and Heritage: Understanding their complex effects on health’
Royal Society for Public Health, 13 October 2021
On 13 October 2021, UCL together with the Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH) launched an online course for researchers and community organisations examining the complex effects that the arts, culture and heritage have on physical and mental health. Read more.
How much longer and further are health inequalities set to rise? The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities faces unprecedented challenges
The Kings Fund, 10 October 2021
The launch of the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) is accompanied by the starkest evidence yet of the large, persistent and widening inequalities in life expectancy at birth in England. The divide takes many forms - north-south, rich-poor, male-female, London versus the rest of the country. Read more.
The disease of disparity: A blueprint to make progress on health inequalities in England
Institute for Public Policy Research, 19 October 2021
Today, a child born in the most deprived part of the country can expect to die 10 years before a child born in the least deprived part of the country. They can expect to fall into poor health 20 years sooner – in just their mid-50s – and to live a far greater proportion of their life in poor health. This is unfair and unsustainable – and the scale of health inequality in this country is a key reason it lacked resilience when Covid-19 struck. Read more.
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