You can review the presentations from our recent conference on public health:
We asked each speaker to propose no more than five priorities. Some of them, happily, coincided and I’ve only chosen one where their seemed to be a substantial overlap. Prof Nazroo didn’t feel able to produce five simple proposals and Tim Lang is not yet ready to release his priorities to public scrutiny. But we still have a lot more than five. So you are invited to decide which are your top five priorities. I’m afraid I have mangled some of these ideas to get them short enough. So these words are mostly mine, rather than those of our distinguished contributors. I apologise but that is what happens when you try and produce evidence based policies and get involved in the messy business of politics. The subtleties get lost.
Public health priorities
- Invest in our public health workforce (10%, 8 Votes)
- Develop universal, comprehensive, high-quality early Childhood care and Education. (10%, 8 Votes)
- Ensure resources for health are distributed to reduce inequalities in life chances between places. (10%, 8 Votes)
- Move from Financial Reporting to Financial, social and environmental reporting (9%, 7 Votes)
- A new public health bill to give more state power against threats to health (8%, 6 Votes)
- Invest in local public health services (8%, 6 Votes)
- Implement existing laws that protect conditions that create and protect health and fairness (6%, 5 Votes)
- Increase the public health benefits of the social security system. (6%, 5 Votes)
- Measure value and benefit, not just cost of sustainable interventions (5%, 4 Votes)
- Build an energy economy based on renewables. (4%, 3 Votes)
- Levys on the unhealthy commodity industries (4%, 3 Votes)
- Radical overhaul of gambling regulation (4%, 3 Votes)
- Minimum unit pricing for alcohol (4%, 3 Votes)
- Review of the marketing of unhealthy commodities and services to children, young people and the vulnerable (4%, 3 Votes)
- Devolve power – increasing the influence that the public has over how resources are used. (3%, 2 Votes)
- New trade agreements to protect and promote the publics health (3%, 2 Votes)
- Redefine community health and prosperity beyond materialism (3%, 2 Votes)
- Take cycling seriously. Invest in infrastructure (1%, 1 Votes)
- Invest in public transport (1%, 1 Votes)
- Stop blaming do something about our environment so that it’s easier for us to live healthier and longer. (0%, 0 Votes)
- Default 20mph speed limit nationally for residential streets (0%, 0 Votes)
- Better road crossing facilities – more crossings, more time (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 17
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