All Public health articles – Page 123

  • News

    Obesity crisis as serious as climate change, warns Johnson

    2007-10-15T00:00:00Z

    The public health threat posed by obesity in the UK is a 'potential crisis on the scale of climate change', health secretary Alan Johnson has warned.

  • News

    Physical activity pilots launched in London surgeries

    2007-10-15T00:00:00Z

    Adults who lead sedentary lifestyles, including some who may be at risk of conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure, are being encouraged by their GPs to take more exercise as part of a new physical activity pilot launched by the Department of Health in partnership with Natural England ...

  • News

    UK is toughest on tobacco, survey shows

    2007-10-12T00:00:00Z

    The UK has the strictest tobacco control measures in Europe, a survey of 30 countries has found.

  • News

    Family doctors should prescribe English lessons, Royal College of GPs chair proposes

    2007-10-11T09:00:00Z

    GPs should be able to prescribe language lessons to patients who struggle with English, the chair of the Royal College of GPs has urged.

  • News

    sexual health services

    2007-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts' management of sexual health services in general practice is 'erratic, uncoordinated and poorly planned', according to new report.The report 'Delivery of Sexual Health in General Practices' published today by the All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Choice and Sexual Health Group found only 5 per cent of general practices in the ...

  • News

    Wales to launch physiotherapy programme

    2007-10-10T00:00:00Z

    Chief medical officer for Wales Dr Tony Jewell has announced a new drive to tackle Wales' most common chronic disease.

  • News

    World Health Organisation unveils structural changes

    2007-10-10T00:00:00Z

    The head of the World Health Organisation has announced structural changes.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Sport set to replace crime for priority offenders

    2007-10-09T09:00:00Z

    Prolific and priority offender schemes recognise that 80 per cent of crime is committed by 20 per cent per cent of offenders. One of the key pathways is improving offenders' mental and physical health.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Choosing Health tackles health inequalities in prisons

    2007-10-09T09:00:00Z

    Lifestyle initiatives are being taken into prisons to deliver healthy living messages to the most disadvantaged groups in society, writes David Williams

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Young offender pilot adds drive and motivation

    2007-10-09T09:00:00Z

    Paul is a young offender living inside HMP Young Offenders Institute, Swinfen Hall in the West Midlands. In 2006 he was one of the first to complete the prison health trainer training programme.

  • News

    Obesity doubles in 10 years

    2007-10-09T00:00:00Z

    A new study has found that the number of men and women under 45 who are morbidly obese has doubled in the last 10 years.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Health developments: doctors on the football pitch

    2007-10-08T09:00:00Z

    Sports stadiums are proving mutually attractive as shared sites for NHS health centres, and interest in such ventures is on the increase. Lynne Greenwood is your commentator

  • Comment

    David Woodhead on healthcare for heartbreak

    2007-10-08T09:00:00Z

    The health impact of personal distress on service users as well as staff can be heavy and is a real public health challenge, says David Woodhead

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Reducing health inequalities

    2007-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Winner East Lancashire PCTThe Accident Prevention Team (ACAP) project was initially developed in 2001 to reduce the number of children below the age of five years attending A&E or GP surgeries due to a home accident. Since 2006 it has expanded to other safety issues.In some of the more ...

  • News

    TB drug collaboration launched

    2007-10-08T00:00:00Z

    The Stop TB Partnership global drug facility and HIV/AIDS treatment initiative Unitaid have announced a collaboration with 19 countries to address serious shortages of anti-tuberculosis drugs.

  • News

    Smokers who can't quit

    2007-10-08T00:00:00Z

    The Royal College of Physicians has been accused of sending out mixed messages on smoking in its report Harm reduction in Nicotine Addiction: Helping people who can't quit.The report called for a new approach, it said smokers who can't quit should be given nicotine products that will satisfy their addiction ...

  • News

    Give smokers nicotine products, says RCP

    2007-10-05T00:00:00Z

    The UK is failing to help heavily addicted smokers give up the habit, the Royal College of Physicians has said.Launching the report Harm Reduction in Nicotine Addiction: helping people who can't quit, Professor John Britton, chair of the RCP's tobacco advisory group, said nicotine products could help smokers kick the ...

  • News

    Teenage pregnancy: confidentiality guide hailed as step forward

    2007-10-04T09:00:00Z

    Moves to strengthen confidentiality for young people have been hailed as a step forward in efforts to bring down teenage pregnancy rates.

  • News

    Call to meet equality obligations to men

    2007-10-04T09:00:00Z

    The Men's Health Forum has challenged the new Commission for Equality and Human Rights to take immediate action to ensure the NHS meets its obligations to men.

  • News

    Confederation call to tackle health inequalities

    2007-10-04T09:00:00Z

    Moves to tackle health inequalities must start with the most excluded, the NHS Confederation has urged.