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Health impact assessment

Rapid appraisal tool for health impact assessment
Toolkit
2002
Author: Erica Ison
Produced by: Directors of Public Health in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire with support from the Faculty of Public Health

Health impact assessment has been developed to support people from different backgrounds and different situations in the assessment of a proposal's potential impacts on health. This rapid appraisal tool enables users to understand better the health impacts of a proposal and to apply this information in policy decision-making.

Available to download only.

 

Homelessness

Addressing the Health Needs of Rough Sleepers [137KB PDF]
Report
2002
Author: Prof Siân Griffiths
Produced by: Homelessness Directorate of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

This report present the findings from a project commissioned by the Government’s Rough Sleepers Unit (RSU) to assist policy development in primary care health for homeless people who sleep rough.

Available to download only.

Health of rough sleepers: sleeping rough in Oxford [1.72MB PDF]
Report
2002
Author(s): Prof Siân Griffiths

This report, focusing on the health needs of rough sleepers in Oxford, was used as background to compiling the Government report on Addessing the Health Needs of Rough Sleepers.

Available to download only.

Hypertension

Hypertension - the 'silent killer' [200KB PDF]
Briefing Statement
2005
Author(s): Dr Alan Maryon-Davis, Lindsey Stewart
ISBN: 1 900273 19 5

Provides an overview of the burden of hypertension (also known as ‘high blood pressure'). It discusses the implications for health and the cost to individuals, society and the NHS. The briefing statement provides a useful summary of the main issues discussed in the hypertension toolkit: Easing the pressure: tackling hypertension.
Easing the pressure: tackling hypertension - online resource

 

Easing the pressure: tackling hypertension
Tookit
2005
Authors: Dr Alan Maryon-Davis and Dr Vivienne Press on behalf of the Cardiovascular Health Working Group of the Faculty of Public Health
Produced by: Faculty of Public Health and National Heart Forum
ISBN: 1 900273 15 2

Easing the pressure: tackling hypertension is a toolkit for developing a local strategy to tackle hypertension. It is intended to help local multi-agency teams - including public health, health promotion and primary care professionals, and strategic planners in both NHS and local government - develop and implement strategies and action plans, not only to identify and treat patients with hypertension but also to promote health lifestyles and environments to prevent hypertension in the first place.

Easing the pressure: tackling hypertension - online resource includes links to online tools including a 'Hypertension prevalence ready reckoner', as well as proformas and checklists to help assess need and monitor progress.

 

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Mental Health

Mental Health and Smoking [230 KB pdf]
Position statement
2008
Mental Health Committee of the Faculty of Public Health
ISBN: 1-900273-34-9

People with mental health problems have higher levels of smoking, which is responsible for a large proportion of the excess mortality of people with mental illness.

This statement highlights the health inequalities faced by people with mental health problems who smoke.

It then sets out what needs to happen to ensure that people with mental health problems who smoke are given adequate support to quit, and that their physical health protected.

 

Mental Health and Work [133 KB pdf]
Position statement
2007
Mental Health Working Group of the Faculty of Public Health
ISBN: 1 900273 27 6

Mental health problems like stress, anxiety and depression caused or made worse by work are by far the biggest cause of sickness absence in the UK.

This statement highlights what employers can do to protect and improve the mental health of their workforce. It calls on employers to both identify and reduce organisational causes of stress in their workplace, by consulting and working in partnership with staff and their representatives.

 

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Nutrition

See: Nutrition & Food Poverty Toolkit

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Obesity

Lightening the load: tackling overweight and obesity
Toolkit
2007
Author(s): Dr Kerry Swanton and Monica Frost; consultant editor, Dr Alan Maryon-Davis
Produced by: Faculty of Public Health in association with the National Heart Forum

This toolkit has been designed to provide a starting point for developing a local strategy to tackle overweight and obesity. It is intended to help local multiagency teams - including public health, health promotion and primary care professionals, and strategic planners in both the NHS and local government in England - to develop and implement strategies and action plans to halt the year-on-year rise of overweight and obesity through prevention and management.

Available to download only.

Occupational Health

See: Workplace health

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Parenting

Parenting and public health [316KB PDF]
Briefing Statement
2005
Author(s): Prof Sarah Stewart-Brown
ISBN: 1 900273 16 0

Parenting and public health provides an insight into this complex issue through providing an overview of new research and existing knowledge on the impact of parent-child relationships on the future health and well-being of children. It describes a number of evidence-based interventions and recommendations for further action.

 

Helpful Parenting [80KB PDF]
Report
Produced by: Joint Working Party of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

This is the report of a joint working party initiated and hosted by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. The working party focused on the impact of parenting on mental health, and emotional and social development in the first three years of life. The report also identifies the scientific evidence base for this.

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Public health networks

Enabling the development of effective public health networks [PDF]
Report
2003
Produced by: Public Health Resource Unit, Oxford

This report, commissioned by the Department of Health, focuses on the outcomes of a national workshop examining the development of public health networks which was funded by the Department of Health, and jointly sponsored by the Faculty of Public Health, Health Development Agency, National Electronic Library for Health, Association of Directors of Public Health, and the National Public Health and Primary Care Group.

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Enabling the Development of Public Health Networks [PDF]
Report
2004
Produced by: Department of Health and Public Health Resource Unit, Oxford

A series of regional workshops, funded by the Department of Health, on developing public health networks took place between November 2002 and February 2003. In order to facilitate more coherent development in public health networks, the Department of Health commissioned the Public Health Resource Unit in Oxford to run action learning sets for people involved in manging publc health networks. This summary report discusses the outcome and background to these.

Available to download only. Also available on the Workforce & Resource Development CD.

Statement on managed public health networks [621KB PDF]
Statement
2002
Produced by: Faculty of Public Health, Public Health and Primary Care Group, and Health Development Agency

This statement provides guidance on the purpose, composition, management and accountability arrangements for managed public health networks.

Available to download only.

Physical activity

Let's Get Moving - A Physical Activity Handbook for Developing Local Programmes
Toolkit
2001
Authors: Dr Alan Maryon-Davis, Luise Sarch, Melanie Morris and Bob Laventure
Produced by: Faculty of Public Health and National Heart Forum
ISBN: 1 874279 09 8

A resource to help professionals develop local policies, strategies and programmes to promote physical activity. It gives recommendations for levels of physical activity in children and adults, lists common elements of a successful community-based physical activity programme, including potential partners and their contributions, as well as providing guidance on builidng a local physical activity programme.

Available in hard copy only.

 

History of public health

A chronology of state medicine, public health, welfare and related services in Britain 1066-1999 [1.46MB pdf]
Report
2000
Author: Compiled by Prof Michael D Warren
Produced by: Faculty of Public Health
ISBN: 1 90027306 3

This chronology provides a comprehensive, detailed and critical account of development and legislation relevant to public health, allowing us to see the decisions that have influenced what we have today.

Available to download only.

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