From evidence into action: opportunities to protect and improve the nation’s healthPHE, 23 October 2014
- This report sets out PHEs seven key priorities for the coming five to ten years:
- tackling obesity particularly among children
- reducing smoking and stopping children starting
- reducing harmful drinking and alcohol-related hospital admissions
- ensuring every child has the best start in life
- reducing the risk of dementia, its incidence and prevalence in 65-75 year olds
- tackling the growth in antimicrobial resistance
- achieving a year-on-year decline in tuberculosis incidence
- PHE will work with local and central government, clinical commissioning groups and the wider NHS, universities, industry, employers, and the voluntary and community sector to build support and commitment for improving health, making evidence and knowledge on ‘what works’ available to all in a form they can use and spreading best practice.
Longer Lives - premature mortality rates
Public Health England
- The Longer Lives website highlights premature mortality across every local authority in England, giving people important information to help them improve their community’s health
- Overall premature deaths available for Cancer, Heart disease and stroke, Lung disease and Liver disease
- Data is shown as peer groups so local authorities can compare their premature mortality rates with others of similar socioeconomic status.
- Search by town, local authority and postcode
Public Health England structure
DH, 26 July 2012
- The proposed structure for 1 April 2013, including organisational structures, which will be used as the basis for transition.