Blogs
What action is needed to improve health in the UK?
Our blogs provide an opportunity to give some personal views on this important question.
Over time, of course, some blogs may be overtaken by events (for instance if governments take action we have recommended) so may no longer be topical - while others stand the test of time and are still relevant and appropriate.
That's why, in this section you'll find:
- Our most recent blogs, together with
- A selection of earlier blogs which we believe remain relevant and topical today
- Does Vitamin D reduce the risk of Covid-19?
- Should our postcode affect how long we live?
- Tackling Health Inequalities
- Young People's Mental Health
- The influence of emotional health
- Health inequalities post Covid-19
- Does cronyism cost lives?
- Can Nature influence health?
- Obesity - a real challenge
- Avoiding Man-made Disasters
- Helicopter parenting
- Status - a key to longevity?
- Health - a postcode lottery?
- Combatting Antibiotic Resistance
- Three Major Health Risks
- Vitamin D and COVID-19
- How to prevent future pandemics?
- Covid -19: Public health lessons
- Worst ever NHS Winter crisis?
- Student Heartbreak Hotel?
Health at Work
Here's our Employers Guide 2021
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Encouraging physical activity - what works
Our research into successful initiatives to encourage physical activity has now been published in Perspectives in Public Health.
Annual Review 2019-2020
Here's our Annual Review 2019-2020
Improving Mental Health
The early years of life can lay the foundations for long term mental health. That was the conclusion from our research published in Perspectives in Public Health.
Student Health Behaviour Change
Our research, undertaken with King’s College London, has been published in Perspectives in Public Health.
Tackling Childhood Obesity
Here's our 2019 written evidence to the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee.
And the written evidence we provided to the Committee in 2018, some of which was included in the Committee's published report.
Health Behaviour Change
We interviewed over a thousand people to help shed more light on this.
Find out more about our findings on Health Behaviour Change, undertaken in partnership with Kingston University.
