Public Health and Wellbeing

Salus populi suprema est lex

Cicero, c.BC 60

• DOCTORS IN UNITE CALL FOR A NATIONAL OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE. 14 October 2021
• Review of ‘A Radical Practice in Liverpool: the rise, fall and rise of the Princes Park Health centre’ Katy Gardner and Susanna Graham-Jones. 2 August 2021
• THE FEELEY REVIEW OF SOCIAL CARE IN SCOTLAND 17 March 2021
• Government response to Public Consultation on ICSs 9 March 2021
• Major speech on coronavirus by Justin Madders 23 February 2021
• Are animal products in the COVID vaccines? Are they Halal? 12 January 2021
• The Moonshot mistake 19 November 2020
• Tory dependency argument and free school meals 27 October 2020
• Over 70 health organisations unite to raise serious concerns with Government about plans to reorganise the public health system 2 September 2020
• Plans to “scrap” Public Health England: A Socialist Health Association Response 18 August 2020
• Why the UK failed the pandemic test 3 August 2020
• HIV i-Base publish the sixth COVID-19 supplement to HTB 30 July 2020
• SHA COVID-19 Blog 20 27 July 2020
• Durham health visitor and school nurse job losses ‘incomprehensible’ with Covid-19 still prevalent, says Unite 24 July 2020
• More people need to be encouraged to take up routine vaccinations as we recover from Covid-19, BMA warns 24 July 2020
• TEST, TRACE AND PROTECT IN WALES; A PUBLIC SERVICE RESPONSE TO COVID-19 21 July 2020
• SHA COVID-19 Blog 19 20 July 2020
• SHA COVID-19 Blog 18 13 July 2020
• SHA COVID-19 Blog 17 6 July 2020
• BROMLEY COUNCIL AND HIV – THE FIGHT FOR SOCIAL SERVICES 1 July 2020
• HIV and COVID-19: new publication 1 July 2020
• SHA COVID-19 Blog 16 29 June 2020
• SHA COVID-19 Blog 15 22 June 2020
• Lets not forget prevention (yet again) or measles and flu may come to bite us 21 June 2020
• SHA COVID-19 Blog 14 15 June 2020
• FRONTLINE QUESTIONS AND FEEDBACK FOR THE SHADOW TEAM 14 6 20 15 June 2020
• SHA COVID-19 Blog 13 8 June 2020
• Disastrous UK RECOVERY study stops hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for COVID-19: more than 1100 deaths question ethics and safety overall 8 June 2020
• SHA COVID-19 Blog 12 1 June 2020
• SHA COVID-19 Blog 11 25 May 2020
• COVID-19 BASHH resources 23 May 2020
• Covid-19: food and health inequalities and the future of public health nutrition 20 May 2020
• May 2020 issue: Sexual Health, Reproductive Health & HIV Policy eBulletin and COVID-19 19 May 2020
• Studies reporting lack of benefit from hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 19 May 2020
• SHA COVID-19 Blog 10 18 May 2020
• Sexual and reproductive healthcare for women during COVID-19 – from FSRH 12 May 2020
• UK HAS THE HIGHEST DEATH TOLL IN EUROPE – PUBLIC HEALTH IS A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH 7 May 2020
• Firefighters slam government and building owners as HCLG committee cladding survey highlights widespread safety failings 6 May 2020
• Sunday Times Response to Government 27 April 2020
• FRONTLINE EXPERIENCE AND TOUGH QUESTIONS 26 4 20 27 April 2020
• On the calculated death rates from coronavirus. 24 April 2020
• WHO COVID-19 Database launches new search interface 20 April 2020
• SHA COVID-19 Blog 6 20 April 2020
• Covid-19 Mutual Aid UK: Guide for Supporting Migrants During Coronavirus 20 April 2020
• QUESTIONS TO ASK THE SOS FOR HEALTH 15 April 2020
• Potential treatments for COVID-19 could be manufactured for $1 a day or less 15 April 2020
• FIREFIGHTERS TO FIT FACE MASKS AND DELIVER VITAL PPE AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO NHS AND CARE STAFF 10 April 2020
• Why it is important to include HIV status and HIV testing in managing COVID-19 10 April 2020
• BHIVA message: HTB COVID-19 special issue: 27 March 9 April 2020
• A request from Jeremy Corbyn for Urgent Action on the Corona Virus crisis 3 April 2020
• PROTECT ALL FRONTLINE HEALTHCARE WORKERS 1 April 2020
• Charity sector coronavirus financial support package urgently needed, says Unite 31 March 2020
• Home-visiting health visitors and community nurses need PPE urgently, says Unite 31 March 2020
• SHA COVID-19 Blog 3 31 March 2020
• COVID-19 and the NHS—“a national scandal” 29 March 2020
• PQs to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on contact tracing and testing 23 March 2020
• Joint SHA, KONP and HCT petition – NHS Frontline staff make 6 key demands 21 March 2020
• COVID-19: Fire and rescue services lose hundreds of firefighters to self-isolation, as union calls for priority testing 20 March 2020
• OPEN LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER FROM THE SOCIALIST HEALTH ASSOCIATION 20 March 2020
• Call for retired nurses and student nurses to join the fight against coronavirus 19 March 2020
• SHA COVID-19 Blog 1 17 March 2020
• COVID-19: Firefighters should cease non-essential interactions with the public, union says 16 March 2020
• SHA statement on the 2020 Budget 12 March 2020
• CROI 2020: Special session on COVID-19 11 March 2020
• New post on Save Liverpool Women’s Hospital 8 February 2020
• 2 papers from Jean Hardiman Smith 23 December 2019
• Fire Brigades Union response to HMICFRS inspections Tranche 3 17 December 2019
• Brentford Travelodge fire: Fire Brigades Union comment 5 December 2019
• New laws to implement NHSE’s Long Term Plan 16 October 2019
• UK HIV organisations call for urgent review of crisis in sexual health funding 2 September 2019
• ‘The concept of health tourism for HIV treatment is an outdated myth. This suggestion is outrageous.’ 11 August 2019
• SHA responds to Government publication ‘on the quiet’ of the Prevention Green Paper 26 July 2019
• SOCIALIST HEALTH ASSOCIATION (SHA) – Prevention and Public Health policy 11 July 2019
• Patient online consultation requests ‘mirror’ busiest surgery times 26 March 2019
• PUTTING THE BEVAN PRINCIPLE IN PLACE .. 6 March 2019
• The Good Law Project has warned legal challenge to the DHSC over serious shortage medicines protocol 24 February 2019
• JULIAN TUDOR HART — A TRIBUTE BY PROFESSOR GRAHAM WATT. 12 February 2019
• Vote for Cornwall’s children’s services to remain in-house applauded by Unite – press release 7 November 2018
• Government funding cuts leave sexual health and HIV care at ‘breaking point’ 2 October 2018
• Consultation survey for the NHS England Integrated Care Provider Contracts – all answers are here 24 September 2018
• DEVELOPING NARRATIVES 19 August 2018
• NHS contracts and Richard Branson 14 August 2018
• Superbugs: are we returning to an era where bacteria are a major killer without a cure? 7 May 2018
• 70 years of fighting the 5 giants – lessons from the front line 30 April 2018
• NHS Digital still sending patient information to Home Office immigration authorities 29 April 2018
• A new framework for best HIV care: BHIVA Standards of Care revised and updated (2018) 26 April 2018
• Sexual and reproductive health sector call to strengthen the public health framework 19 April 2018
• Speech at Labour North conference 26 March 2018
• Health inequalities – what to “do”. What are the actions or interventions we should implement? 10 March 2018
• Reframing Health inequalities 9 March 2018
• What can Councillors do about health? 8 February 2018
• What can councillors do about health? 4 February 2018
• Public health priorities 31 December 2017
• Prevention priorities 19 December 2017
• Health Inequalities priorities for government 13 December 2017
• Divesting from Fossil Fuels: a public health action 8 December 2017
• Public Health Priorities for Labour 2 December 2017
• Physical activity, Air Pollution and Transport 1 December 2017
• Sharon Hodgson’s speech on Public Health Priorities 27 November 2017
• Faculty of Public Health top five public health priorities 24 November 2017
• Child obesity is a ‘national emergency’ 12 October 2017
• Sharon Hodgson speech to our fringe meeting 3 October 2017
• Public Health And Wellbeing 12 September 2017
• Breast cancer study in India shows how the country can avoid crisis 17 August 2017
• Power, health & wellbeing 14 June 2017
• UK Charter for Health 7 June 2017
• Live Sustainably – Live Well 24 May 2017
• Public Health and Wellbeing proposals 11 May 2017
• Being poor kills 24 April 2017
• First Ten Years of Free Prescriptions in Wales 20 April 2017
• Why we don’t need the alcohol industry for a strong economy 23 February 2017
• Why the state of child health must be taken seriously 8 February 2017
• Health Divides – Where you live can kill you 30 December 2016
• Andy Burnham: Transport and the environment 8 December 2016
• Why GPs should become involved in ‘health creation’ 26 November 2016
• Smokers in deprived area put off by cost and faff of electronic cigarettes 8 November 2016
• A False Economy 30 September 2016
• Should we classify obesity as a disease? 12 September 2016
• Health Creation … tell us your Trojan Mouse success story! 7 September 2016
• Childhood Obesity 5 September 2016
• Peter Draper – An Appreciation 31 August 2016
• Prevention of mental illness 15 July 2016
• Health inequalities today 2 July 2016
• Infrastructure for Health and Public Health 29 June 2016
• Tackling the hazards to health posed by air pollution 28 June 2016
• Public Transport and Public Health 19 June 2016
• Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis 11 June 2016
• Fair Society Healthy Air 10 June 2016
• Why England could get knocked out in the quarter finals 24 May 2016
• Cut the horse manure! Where’s the evidence? 8 May 2016
• The Health-Related Consequences of Brexit 13 April 2016
• Government U-turns on HIV game changer PrEP 23 March 2016
• NHS England will not pay for new HIV prevention treatment 22 March 2016
• Avoiding Air Pollution 16 March 2016
• The government’s own numbers show that alcohol is under-taxed 13 March 2016
• Tobacco, alcohol and processed food industries 24 February 2016
• The Sugar Tax Debate 23 February 2016
• Fizzy drink companies spell out sugar content in teaspoons 20 February 2016
• Public Health Grant allocations 11 February 2016
• Cure over prevention 15 December 2015
• Is this Europe? 2 December 2015
• What has the Immigration Bill got to do with public health? 27 November 2015
• Speech to National Voices Annual Members’ Conference 2015 13 November 2015
• Public Health policy review 31 October 2015
• Patients Know Best 27 October 2015
• The need for a ‘sugar tax’ 25 October 2015
• Prevention is better than cure 23 October 2015
• Car smoking ban – landmark moment for public health 2 October 2015
• DICKENSIAN PUBLIC HEALTH CUTS 30 September 2015
• Chancellor Slashes Public Health services to the bone 9 September 2015
• Paradise Regained and Paradise Lost? 5 July 2015
• Obesity: How Thatcherism made us fat 9 June 2015
• Councils are fighting with one hand behind their backs on public health 8 April 2015
• Is the NHS wrongly named? 4 April 2015
• Cold Homes 29 March 2015
• The protective effects of social democratic welfare states during recessions 20 March 2015
• Halt the care.data roll-out 19 March 2015
• TTIP ‘threat to people’s health in UK and across Europe’ 13 March 2015
• Food safety in crisis 13 February 2015
• The first city in the UK to ban smoking in outdoor public places 2 February 2015
• Using Information to Challenge Health Inequalities 22 January 2015
• Food crime—why should doctors care? 21 January 2015
• Protecting Children, Empowering All 19 January 2015
• Labour must be convincing about the NHS 20 November 2014
• National Child Obesity Epidemic 12 November 2014
• Trading health? 4 November 2014
• Deaths from Heart Attack in England 18 July 2013
• This is not just care, this is NHS ‘Whole Person Care’! 30 April 2013
• Tobacco and Health Inequality 10 April 2013
• How To Fund Research To Enhance Your Organisation’s Role And Function? 14 January 2013
• Taxing Sugar 9 January 2013
• Cycling safer than driving for young people 6 December 2012
• Life Expectancy England & Wales since 1701 28 October 2012
• How much sugar do Americans consume? 9 September 2012
• Improving the Health of the Nation 23 August 2012
• Labour Health Policy Consultation 2 August 2012
• The Health Effects of Unemployment 1 August 2012
• A new health policy for Labour 29 March 2012
• The time to hesitate is through 7 November 1980
• Peckham and Architecture a drama of building and people 21 September 1949
• The Pioneer Health Centre 20 October 1946
• An NHS for the whole person and whole community 9 September 2014
• Does a Spoonful of Sugar Help the Medicine Go Down? 3 September 2014
• Charter for Community Development in Health 14 August 2014
• National Policy Forum Report 20 July 2014
• Top Ten for Number Ten 1 July 2014
• Healthier Scotland 24 June 2014
• Round up : public health in the news 17 June 2014
• Amendments to Labour Policies 9 June 2014
• Proposed amendments to Labour Public Health Policy 11 May 2014
• Proposed amendments to Britain’s Global Role 10 May 2014
• Labour’s public health policies 4 May 2014
• Labour’s nanny state plan for drinkers 4 May 2014
• Labour policies to tackle the social determinants of health? 15 April 2014
• Ideas for Labour Public Health Policy 7 April 2014
• Welsh Public Health White Paper consultation 4 April 2014
• Has pollution been air-brushed from public health policy? 3 April 2014
• Rights involve responsibilities for patients 5 March 2014
• Andy Burnham on Public Health 7 February 2014
• Cycle Helmets – Compulsory? 3 February 2014
• Policy submission on Public Health 23 January 2014
• A New Kind of Doctor 8 Accountability For And To Groups 17 October 1988
• Towards a policy submission on Public Health 1 January 2014
• Public Opinion on the NHS 17 December 2013
• Public Health Policy discussion 16 November 2013
• Public Health Possibilities 8 November 2013
• In place of growth: The case for pursuing a steady state economy 31 October 2013
• Austerity kills – we must invest 31 October 2013
• Why being part of the European Union is good for our health 28 October 2013
• European Union Health Policy 12 October 2013
• Modelling a Healthy Economy – the next task for health care? 6 October 2013
• New ideas in public health 8 September 2013
• What should local councillors be doing with and for their NHS? 2 September 2013
• THE CHARTER FOR PUBLIC HEALTH 19 November 1992
• A National Service for Health 11 September 1948
• The Coalition Mid-term Agreement on health 7 January 2013
• The need to tackle Health Inequalities 9 April 2013
• The dangers of cycling 18 August 2012
• Can we leave industry to lead efforts to improve population health ? 30 April 2013
• The case for making health inequalities a top priority 8 May 2013
• Legal status of Public Health Under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 18 May 2012
• A National Health Service 7 March 2013
• Health Checks 22 July 2013
• Deprivation and mortality – Where’s the connection? 19 June 2013
• A Fence or an Ambulance? 1 July 2013
• Health and Wellbeing Boards for a new public health 3 July 2013
• Is the Longer Lives website useful to local communities? 21 June 2013
• Health Education and nanny statism 2 February 2013
• Public Health for 2015 election 10 May 2013
• What Sort of NHS Do We Want? 5 November 2012
• Austerity and Health – Economics of a Plan B 29 May 2013
• Improving the Health of the Nation; a policy for the NHS and its partners 2012 4 November 2012
• NHS Restoration and Public Health Bill 18 May 2012
• Expenditure on health 28 June 2013
• Public health must lead a public system 12 May 2013
• Doing Research on a Budget ? – the Health Voluntary Sector 27 November 2012

See also our pages on Obesity, Transport, Food policy and Community Development and Health

• • Afternow
  • American College of Epidemiology
  • Burden of Lung Disease 2006
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research
  • Centre for History in Public Health
  • Choosing Health? A consultation on improving people’s health Choosing Health: making healthier choices easier
  • Climate and Health Council
  • Collection of materials on Public Health in Britain 1691-1991 (This is a Japanese site. The texts are reproduced as pictures in PDF files, but there is some wonderful material – particularly relating to the work of Edwin Chadwick)
  • Combined Impact of Health Behaviours and Mortality in Men and Women: The EPIC-Norfolk Prospective Population Study
  • Commission on living standards
  • Community Health Profiles
  • Compendium of Public Health Indicators
  • Consultation starts on Public Health Bill in Scotland 2006
  • Contemporary Resolution: Public Health and Inequality 2005
  • Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Dr Foster Commissioning to Reduce health inequalities 2009
  • Dr John Snow
  • Sir Edwin Chadwick
  • European Journal of Public Health
  • European Public Health Alliance
  • European Commission Public Health Directorate
  • Faculty of Public Health
  • Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health
  • Happiness Formula
  • Health Canada
  • Health England (archive site)
  • Health Matters
  • Health profiles for English Local Authorities
  • Healthy living centres – Fit to Drop Guardian September 2005 Scottish evaluation Northern Ireland evaluation
  • Human Liberty and Human Health – Steve Watkins October 2004
  • Improving health and well-being – Audit Commission
  • In it for the long haul: The challenge for public health IPPR 2011
  • Incentives for Prevention 2009
  • Informed choice’ is no choice at all – Spiked 2004
  • Institute of Public Health in Ireland
  • Is Health a Consumer Good?
  • Jerry Morris 1910-2009
  • John Reid – consultation on Public Health 2004
  • Journal of Public Health
  • Lalonde Report 1974 (Canada)
  • Measuring National Well-being
  • Measuring well-being since the 17th century   Roy Carr-Hill, Centre for Health Economics, University of York 2012:

• National Heart Forum
• National Statistics
• NHS Screening
• Our Healthier Nation
• Paradigmatic obstacles to improving the health of populations -Implications for health policy John McKinlay
• Partnerships (talk to Greater Manchester SHA 2001)
• Pioneers of Public Health speech by Nye Bevan 7 May 1948
• Public Health and Social Justice
• Public Health Briefing 2011
• Public Health Observatories
• Public Health through Partnership SHA Conference 1st June 2001, Cardiff
• Realizing The Potential Of Health In All Policies: Lessons From Finland
• Reflections on the Development of Health Inequalities Policy in England – Adam Oliver April 2010

• Royal Commission on the NHS 1979

• Royal Society for the Promotion of Health
• Screening – Wilson’s criteria
• Securing Good Health for the Whole Population: Population Health Trends (Wanless)
• SHA response to the Choosing Health? consultation May 2004
• Shaping the future of public health: Promoting health in the NHS
• Smoking Bans
• Social exclusion and health
• Social marketing in practice
• Social-medicine.com A source of information and contact point for research into health inequality
• Social Medicine Portal Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Society for Social Medicine
• Solutions for Public Health
• Treatise of the Scurvy, James Lind 1753
• UK Health Watch 2005 (PDF file)
• Unnatural Causes
• Vaccine Safety
• Vaccination Panic – Geof Rayner March 2002
• Well-being – nef
• Well-being – Richard Layard’s work
• What is Social Medicine? – Matthew R. Anderson, Lanny Smith, and Victor W. Sidel 2005
• Without Walls – Towards Health and Well-being in the Twenty-first Century
• World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health
• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Public Health