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The benefits of health profiles
Do you know which former industrial town is out-performing its more affluent neighbours in terms of getting children active? How about which deprived inner city area is surpassing expectations in encouraging breastfeeding? Don’t worry if you don’t. The answers can easily be found among the interactive maps, detailed charts and wide-ranging data provided in the latest Local Health Profiles.
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Healthy communities products and tools
The Department of Health and the Local Government Agency have developed these tools and products to help you assess health inequalities within your locality as well as addressing leadership issues in this agenda.
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Improvement
Towards Excellence in Councils Adult Social care is a new programme to help councils improve their performance in adult social care. The sector-led initiative builds on the self-assessment and improvement work already carried out by councils.
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April 2008
Read about Haringey Libraries health project, the Wye Wood project, Stroud Council's staff health initiative and how Aspley Women's group in Nottinghamshire is helping women beat depression.
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Year of Healthy Communities Calendar 2008-2009
Find the 2008-2009 Healthy Communities Calendar here.
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The Local Wellbeing project
The Local Wellbeing project was a unique four-year initiative, running until March 2010, to test practical ways of improving public wellbeing through local authorities and their partners in three very different areas of the UK.
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Riots: providing a public health perspective
There was a battery of instant analysis in the immediate aftermath of the riots in August, and central government peppered the airwaves with policy responses: evictions for people convicted of rioting, more help for so-called problem families, curfews and a strategy to tackle gang culture.
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Opening up men's health in Bradford
It has been known for some time that men are not good at accessing health services. However, councils and the NHS are working together to design projects to take healthcare out into the community. Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council has run its ‘Health of Men’ initiative since the 1990s.
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Age UK - Healthy Eating
Help The Aged publish information on healthy eating aimed at older people.
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Golden Age Fairs
Fenland District Council has a markedly high population of older residents, who historically have had problems accessing council and partner services. The reason for this is that Fenland is a large rural area covering more than 200 square miles, with 29 small and remote villages.
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What is health impact assessment?
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) has been described: ‘as any combination of procedures or methods by which a proposed policy or program may be judged as to the effects it may have on the health of a population’.
This method is becoming more popular with local government as a way to predict the impact of local policies on the health of communities.
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Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) and origins
The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 specifies that local authorities and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) produce a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) of the health and wellbeing of the local community.
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Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and knowing your community
Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) remains high on the Government agenda.
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Children and young people
With authorities under new pressures to deliver and develop services for children and young people, this resource explains the issues and offers some practical solutions.
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How LG Improvement and Development can support your council
An outline of LG Improvement and Development support to councils and their partners in the area of children and young peoples services
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Key principles of the Equality Framework for Local Government (EFLG)
The framework builds on and recognises the work that councils have already undertaken under the old ESLG standard, but contains many new features.
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Mental Wellbeing Impact Assessment (MWIA) Programme 2011
Mental Wellbeing Impact Assessment (MWIA) enables local service commissioners and community organisations to assess and measure the impact of their interventions on their population’s mental health and wellbeing.
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Business Case for Health Pilot Programme
This publication written by Matrix and commissioned by the Local Government Association outlines top 10 pillars or tips for developing a successful business for health improvement and wellbeing.
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New partnerships, new opportunities: a resource to assist setting up and running health and wellbeing boards
A resource to assist setting up and running health and welebing boards
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Lightening the load: Obesity toolkit
A toolkit to be used to combat obesity.
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