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Subject: FW: June E-bulletin, NW Public Health Teaching Network
Dear Colleagues, This may be of interest to you.
Gaye Jackson
Head of CPD and Education Partnerships
NHS North West
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From: Sue Powell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 30 June 2008 15:16
To: undisclosed-recipients
Subject: June E-bulletin, NW Public Health Teaching Network
E Bulletin - June 2008
The NW Teaching Public Health Network (NWTPHN) aims to extend the number of learning opportunities in public health in order to enhance the skills of the workforce.
For further details visit our web site at: http://nwph.net/NWTPHN/default.aspx or contact Sue Powell, Co-ordinator ([log in to unmask])
Contents
1.. Diary Dates
1.1 Education Forum : 8th October 2008
1.2 NW Public Health Conference: 13th and 14th October
2.. News
2.1 Health Profiles
2.2 FP7 Fork to farm: Food, health and well being
2.3 New Department of Health Publications
1.0 Diary dates
1.1 Education Forum
The next Education Forum organised by the Teaching Network will be on the 8th October so please make a note in your diary.
1.2 North West Public Health Conference
This year’s conference will be held on 13th and 14th October in the BT Convention Centre, Liverpool.
Details can be obtained from Roger Lincoln ([log in to unmask])
2. News
2.1 Health profiles
The 2008 Health profiles are now available on the following link http://www.apho.org.uk/default.aspx?QN=P_HEALTH_PROFILES
The reports indicate the sheer amount of work that still needs to be done via PCT world class commissioning of services and the all provider units delivering and improving the health profile of the local economies.
A profile of the nation's health
The Profiles use key health indicators to capture a picture of the nation's health down to local level, providing areas across England with valuable information to improve their population's health. This year's data also includes new information on child health inequalities.
People in England can expect to live longer and healthier lives, but the health gap between the most affluent and most deprived wards within each local authority remains unacceptable.
The Government recently announced its renewed commitment to tackling the stark inequalities in England with the launch of its Health Inequalities: Progress and Next Steps report. The document sets out clear and achievable measures for the NHS and Local Authorities to implement.
Key national findings show that:
Deaths from smoking-related diseases continue to fall across England, to 225 per 100,000 (aged 35+) in 2004-06 from 234 in 2003-05.
* The death rate from smoking in the local authority with the lowest rate (139 per 100,000 in East Dorset) is less than half that in the local authority with the highest death rate from smoking (355 per 100,000 in Knowsley)
* In general, smoking is still causing a higher rate of death in the north of England compared to the south.
Life expectancy from birth continues to improve across England for both men and women, but there is still a wide variation across the country.
* Men in the local authority with the highest life expectancy (Kensington and Chelsea, 83.1 years) can expect to live 10 years longer than those in the local authority with the lowest life expectancy (Manchester, 73 years).
* Women in the local authority with the highest life expectancy (Kensington and Chelsea, 87.2 years) can expect to live 9 years longer than those in the local authority with the lowest life expectancy (Liverpool, 78.3 years).
Several indicators of children's health presented in this year's data for the first time show that:
Breastfeeding rates are at a national average of 69%:
* Lambeth knows that 'breast is best', with a rate of 91% of mothers who initiate breastfeeding. Knowsley come bottom with a rate of 33%.
High quality PE and school sport amongst 5-16 year olds for at least two hours per week reached 86%:
* Many more children in Malvern Hills get at least two hours of high quality PE per week than those in Newcastle-under-Lyme (99% compared to 63% respectively).
Obesity amongst reception year children averaged just under 10%:
* Teesdale had the lowest rate (5%) and Hackney had the highest (16%).
These profiles are intended to give the NHS, local authorities and other partners an insight into the health of their residents, to enable resources and initiatives to be better targeted
The Association of Public Health Observatories, with the DH, have also published a companion "Health inequalities Intervention tool", that enables every English local authority to model the effect of four high impact interventions on their life expectancy gap. The four interventions are: smoking cessation, treating undiagnosed high blood pressure, statin prescribing to reduce blood cholesterol and reducing infant mortality.
2.2 FP7 Fork to farm: Food, health and well being
The next call for FP7 Co-operation Food, Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotechnology is due to be published 24 July 2008, with an expected closing date 15 January 2009. The indicative budget for the call is €188.85 million. These are samples of the call topics below that may be of interest to you.
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· Determinants of food habit formation/breaking
· Behavioural models for prevention of obesity, with a particular focus on children
· Benefit/risk perception and communication in the food chain
· Stress, addiction and eating behaviour
· Role and mechanisms of action of plant bioactive compounds
· Development of biomarkers for health-promoting functions
· Strategies for sustainable eating habits
· New solutions for improving refrigeration technologies along the food chain
· Sharing food technology research and development by means of international collaboration – SICA
· Sustainable food and feed processing
· Analytical tools for characterisation of nano-particles in the food matrix
· Risk-benefit assessment of food supplements –SICA
· Combined exposure to pesticides
· Nanotechnology: smart devices to study biomolecule dynamics in real time
· Nanobiotechnology: functionalised membranes
2.3 New Department of Health Publications
The publications below are available at http://www.dh.gov.uk
Health Inequalities: progress and next steps
Published 9th June 2008
National Education and Competence Framework for Assistant and Critical Care Practitioners
Published 19th June 2008
Commissioning to make a bigger difference – A Guide for NHS and social care commissioners on promoting service innovation
Published 25th June 2008
Improving Health: changing behaviour – NHS Health Trainer Handbook
Published 26th June 2008
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