Better policy for healthy lives Find out more about our work to promote policies that support everyone’s opportunities for a healthy life
Change can be achieved by recognising that wellbeing and health need to be an outcome for all future policies implemented in the UK. National and local government must adopt policies that focus on the long-term prevention of ill health.
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Addressing the leading risk factors for ill health
This report summarises recent trends related to smoking, poor diet, physical inactivity and harmful alcohol use – the leading risk factors driving England's high burden of preventable ill health ...
The continuing impact of COVID-19 on health and inequalities
Just over a year after our COVID-19 impact inquiry published its findings, what more do we know about the pandemic’s direct and indirect effects on the nation’s health? Where is government action need...
How to talk about the building blocks of health
A communications toolkit showing people how to tell a more powerful story about health.
Webinar: How to talk about the building blocks of health – a new toolkit for public health communicators
In this webinar, we will delve into our new communicators’ toolkit, developed with FrameWorks UK, which supports public health communicators to tell new, powerful stories using tested framing techniqu...
What can the COVID-19 response tell us about public health interventions and inequalities? Three reflections from Newham
Jason Strelitz, DPH for Newham, shares some important lessons from the experience of managing public health during the pandemic.
What do the public think about taking action to improve health inequalities in Scotland?
Introducing the Health Foundation’s work with partners to conduct an independent review of health and health inequalities in Scotland.
Local action on health inequalities: introducing ‘Shaping Places for Healthier Lives’
Louise Marshall outlines the Health Foundation’s work with the Local Government Association, funding five place-based partnerships taking system-wide action on the wider determinants of health.
Cities Health Inequalities Project
A 3-year programme funded by the Health Foundation, accelerating action to tackle health inequalities in English devolved urban regions.
Inaction on cost of living suggests government hasn’t grasped that health and wealth are intertwined
Health Foundation response to the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) survey highlighting the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on health.
Staggering difference in life chances for those in poorest areas of England
Health Foundation response to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data on Health state life expectancies by national deprivation quintiles (England: 2018 to 2020).
A matter of life and death
An evidence-based framing strategy for shifting understanding and building greater support for action to address the wider determinants of health.
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