Public Health England, October 2018
This document aims to support the Cold Weather Plan for England (CWP) by providing the evidence of the effects of cold on health as well as what is known about the effectiveness of interventions.
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Category: Public Health
Tuberculosis in North West England: Annual review (2016 data): Data from 2000 to 2016
Public Health England, October 2018
Annual regional reports for the recent epidemiology of TB. This report describes the recent epidemiology of TB in the North West, providing an update on local trends, identifying areas of high burden of disease, at-risk population groups, and opportunities for interventions and prevention of future cases.
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Severe mental illness (SMI): physical health inequalities
Public Health England, September 2018
This report compares physical health conditions between people with severe mental illness and the general population by age, sex and deprivation using primary care data.
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Protecting people Promoting health: A public health approach to violence prevention for England
Department of Health, September 2018
This document outlines the extent and impact of violence nationally, covering violence in the general population as well as specific violence types that can impact dramatically on different sectors of society: child maltreatment, youth violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence and elder abuse. It also provides information on how to access local intelligence on violence and related harms. The document describes some of the key risk and protective factors for violence and collects together details of interventions and policy measures that have been effective in preventing violence , giving examples of where these are already being employed in England. It also outlines the policy frameworks already in place to support violence prevention.
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