All Public health articles – Page 135
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Cash boost for health inequalities
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has announced an extra £8.9m for local authorities in 81 areas across the country to invest in schemes to tackle health inequalities. She also invited views on working arrangements in the commissioning framework for health and well-being, which will bring local councils and the NHS closer ...
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Campaign highlights hidden dangers of second-hand smoke
Second-hand smoke is an 'invisible killer', according to a new advertising campaign, launched by public health minister Caroline Flint today. Nearly 85 per cent of tobacco smoke is invisible and odourless, but it causes just as much harm to people's health as the smoke that is visible, according to the ...
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Communities for Health best practice published
The Department of Health has published a report on case examples and best practice from the pilot areas of Communities for Health.Communities for Health: learning from the pilots details how communities have addressed a wide range of health issues and tackled health inequalities.Read the report here
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Smoking cessation statistics released
The Information Centre for health and social care has released statistics on NHS stop smoking services in England for April to September 2006.It has also released General Practices Quality and Outcomes Framework 2005-06: exception reporting summaries for England and community care statistics for 2005-06.Read more here
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NICE publishes mental and sexual health guidelines
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has published recommendations on mental health and on reducing transmission of sexually transmitted infections.The mental health guidance concerns problems during pregnancy and after giving birth. It also covers the care and treatment of women who already had a mental health problem before ...
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Hepatitis C campaign launched
An campaign has been launched to promote awareness of the infectious viral disease hepatitis C.The campaign is targeted at an estimated 250,000 people in the UK who are unaware they have been infected with the disease.Read more on the campaign here
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Cold and flu campaign launched
The Department of Health has launched the 'coughs and sneezes spread diseases' campaign to remind people that simple steps can help stop the spread of colds and flu.The campaign covers simple messages such as reminding people to cover their nose and mouth with a tissue when coughing or sneezing.Read the ...
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Government announces £54.3m drug and alcohol funding
The government has allocated £54.3m in capital funding to improve inpatient and residential drug and alcohol facilities.The successful bids for funding include provision for women-only facilities, people with disabilities and those from black and minority ethnic communities.Read the press release here
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Massive rise in infection-related deaths
Mentions of Clostridium difficile on death certificates in England and Wales rose by 69 per cent between 2004 and 2005, to 3,807, according to the Office for National Statistics.The rate for deaths involving C diff in males increased from 23 to 38 per million population in 2005. In females the ...
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Government tests human influenza plan
The Government's response to a human flu pandemic was tested on Monday and Tuesday.The exercise fully tested the UK's ability to manage the effects of an influenza pandemic by playing out the decision-making process at national, regional and local levels.Read the press release here
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Death rates warning for deprived areas
Death rates in deprived areas of Scotland are falling more slowly than in affluent areas, according to research from the Medical Research Council.Its analysis of death records between 1980 and 2002 shows that the age standardised mortality rate fell by 30 per cent for men and 25 per cent for ...
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Death rates warning for deprived areas
Death rates in deprived areas of Scotland are falling more slowly than in affluent areas, according to research from the Medical Research Council.Its analysis of death records between 1980 and 2002 shows that the age standardised mortality rate fell by 30 per cent for men and 25 per cent for ...
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Trusts poach sexual health funding
Funds which should have gone to sexual health have been diverted elsewhere in almost two-thirds of primary care trusts, according to a survey by the Terrence Higgins Trust.
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If not now, when? Taking action on alcohol
The time is ripe for developing strategic steps to tackle the havoc wreaked by alcohol misuse, says Libby Ranzetta
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How to optimise weight management interventions
With early deaths from obesity set to overtake those from smoking, a primary care service encouraging patients to address their weight is achieving measurable results
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New funding for parent support services
Families minister Beverley Hughes has announced that £7.5m will be spent on information and support services for parents.From April 10 pilot areas will offer new mothers extra help from their midwife and health visitor. The health-led schemes are modelled on a version in the US which helps to reduce accidental ...
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Bigger and clearer cigarette warnings more effective
Research part funded by Cancer research UK has found bigger and clearer health warnings on cigarette packs are more likely to help people quite smoking.Graphic images were found to be more effective still.
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No one to talk to say young people with eating disorders
A survey of young people with eating disorders has found 92 per cent could not tell anyone they had a problem.Only one per cent felt they could talk to their parents, nine per cent could talk to someone at school and 17 per cent to a nurse or doctor.Eating disorder ...
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Hilary Thomas on reconfiguration and supercasinos
So far this year I've enjoyed a strange mixture of speaking to the public about the case for change; getting involved in what I might loosely term 'people processes' - all of which has been a rich source of learning; and finding myself in a new-found role of professional patient.
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Smoking ban examption for mental health
Mental health trust managers have been told how a one-year exemption for their buildings will operate when the new smoking regulations come into force in July.The national clinical director for mental health Professor Louis Appleby has written to mental health trust chief executives to explain where smoking will be allowed ...