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Tag Archives: Sugar Tax
Chief Medical Officer’s Report: Health 2040 – Better Health Within Reach (DHSC / BBC News / NHS England)
Summary The latest annual report from Professor Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England expects a health revolution (sic), with a more prominent re-positioning of healthier lifestyles in society, by 2040: “The environment we live in must … Continue reading →
Posted in Assistive Technology, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Standards, Statistics, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Annual Report of Chief Medical Officer 2018: Better Health Within Reach (Health 2040), Ban of Snacking on Public Transport (Proposal), Barriers and Facilitators in Lifestyle Change, BBC Health News, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Burden of Multimorbidity, Change4Life, Change4Life National Consumer Campaign on Sugar Reduction, Chief Medical Officer, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Annual Report: Health 2040, Chief Medical Officer: Professor Dame Sally Davies, Childhood Obesity, Children and Young People’s Wellbeing - State of the Nation Report (Department for Education 2019), Demographic Changes, Demographics, Demography, Department of Health and Social Care (Formerly the Department of Health), Diagnosis and Management of T2DM in Children and Young People, Emerging Technology, Encouraging Healthy Behaviour, Environmental and Lifestyle Factors, European Comparisons, Fiscal Levers: Sugar Tax, GBD Forecasting Framework, George Eliot Hospital Trust, Global Burden of Disease (GBD), Global Health, Global Health Investment, Health 2040 - Better Health Within Reach: Annual Report of Chief Medical Officer (2018), Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities in England, Healthy Ageing, Healthy Behaviours, Healthy Lifestyles, Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr), International Comparisons, Leading Causes of Years of Life Lost in 2016 and 2040, Leading Causes of YLLs in 2016 and 2040: United Kingdom, Leeds, Life Expectancy, Life Expectancy 1990 to 2040 in UK and 8 Comparison Countries, Lifestyle Advice, Lifestyle Change Interventions, Lifestyle Change Programmes, Lifestyle Factors, Lifestyle Intervention Programmes, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Local Health Environments, Machine Learning for Individualised Medicine, Making Sense of Uncertainty, Mental Disorder and Inequalities, Mental Health Inequalities, Multimorbidities, Multimorbidities and Long-Term Conditions, Neuroprotective Lifestyles, Normalisation, Normalisation Process Theory, Personalised Medicine, Personalised Medicine: Improving Outcomes, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Professor Dame Sally Davies: the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England, Public Health, Public Health England (PHE), Public Mental Health Priorities, Public Understanding of Health Inequalities, Reducing Health Inequalities, Risk Attributable YLLs, Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust, Social Determinants of Health Inequalities, Social Health, Social Health and Communities, Social Isolation and Loneliness, State of the Nation 2019: Children and Young People’s Wellbeing (Department for Education 2019), Structural View of Health Inequalities, Sugar Consumption, Sugar Tax, Uncertainty, Unhealthy Behaviours, Unhealthy Lifestyles, Vascular and Lifestyle Factors, Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, Years of Life Lost (YLLs), YLLs Attributed to Risk Factors in 2016 and 2040
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Emerging Strategy for the Application of Behavioural and Social Sciences to Improving Public Health (PHE / BBC News)
Summary Public Health England (PHE) has investigated the extent to which the behavioural and social sciences might be applied to reduce health inequalities and improve population health and wellbeing. “The strategy was developed in partnership with the Association of Directors … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nutrition, Person-Centred Care, Public Health England, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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A Growing Awareness of Lifestyle Risk Factors and Preventative Healthcare (BBC News / NHS Digital / Health Foundation)
Summary Awareness of lifestyle risk factors and evidence-based preventative lifestyle interventions may soon have a greater influence in medical education. “The health landscape of the UK has dramatically changed over the last 30 or 40 years and I think the … Continue reading →
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Updates to Public Health Outcomes Framework 2016 to 2019 (Department of Health / BBC News)
Summary The original Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF) specified desired outcomes for public health. It concentrated on: Increasing healthy life expectancy. Reducing health inequalities and differences in life expectancy. Reducing inequalities in the healthy life expectancy between communities. A new … Continue reading →
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More on the Obesity – Cancer / Burden of Ill-Health Link (BBC News / CRUK / UK Health Forum)
Summary It is predicted that three out of four adults will be overweight or obese by 2035. The following Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and UK Health Forum report suggests that obesity could be associated with 670,000 to 700,000 extra cases … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nutrition, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, Stroke, UK, Universal Interest
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Women’s Health and Obesity (BBC News / Department of Health)
Summary The Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies’s latest annual report covers many aspects of women’s health (sadly excluding dementia), and points to obesity as being perhaps the biggest threat to population health. Statistics show that 56.4% of women … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, National, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Chief Medical Officer: Professor Dame Sally Davies, Eating Disorders, Embarrassment: a Needless Barrier to Health, Epidemiology, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities in England, Human Rights Approach to Women’s Health, Improving Perinatal Mental Health, Incontinence, Incontinence and Prolapse, Lifestyle Weight Management, Menopause, Midlife Obesity, Missed Opportunities for Intervention in Women’s Health, Mortality Morbidity and Wellbeing: Cancers, Obesity, Obesity and Diabetes, Obesity Epidemic, Obesity in the UK, Obesity is the New Smoking, Obesity Risk Factor, Obesity Statistics, Obesity Time-Bomb, Ovarian Cancer, Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, Perinatal Mental Health, Post-Pregnancy Care, Pre-Conception Health, Prenatal Screening, Psychosocial Factors, reproductive health, Risk Factors, Social Determinants of Health, Social Epidemiology, Sugar Tax, Surveillance, Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), Violence Against Women, Weight Management, Wellbeing, Women’s Cancers, Women’s Health, Women’s Health in Later Life
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Obesity Risk a Dementia Time Bomb? (BBC News / UK Health Forum / European Congress on Obesity / NHS Choices / WHO / BMJ)
Summary Previous research in 2011 has shown that being overweight in middle age increases the risk of developing dementia. Data presented today at the European Congress on Obesity suggests slowing the rise in obesity could help to cut the rising rates of dementia. … Continue reading →
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