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
- Vitamin D and COVID-19
- How to prevent future pandemics?
- Covid -19: Public health lessons
- Student Heartbreak Hotel?
- Worst ever NHS Winter crisis?
- Helicopter parenting
- Prevention in the 2020's
- Pensions and Health
- Childhood Obesity Plan - Chapter 2
- New Year's Resolutions?
- Prevention Vision Paper
- Nanny State?
- Stopping Childhood Obesity
- How I quit smoking
- NHS in crisis?
- Healthy and Wealthy?
- Junk Food Syndrome
- Health Behaviour Change
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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 in May 2019.
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 latest written evidence to the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee.
We've also contributed to a Food Matters Live podcast, exploring how to reduce levels of childhood obesity.
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.
You may also be interested in Health Behaviour Change - A Beginner's Guide.
Healthy and Wealthy?
Our report into the health and economic implications for the UK of mass producing food high in sugar, salt, saturated fat and refined carbohydrates (S3RC).
Obesity Health Alliance
We are a member of the national Obesity Health Alliance – and share the Alliance’s commitment to reduce obesity in the UK.
Annual Review 2018 - 2019
Health Action Campaign Annual Review 2018 - 2019
