Government Office Public Health Teams work with partners on a wide range of programmes and initiatives designed to improve the health of people living in their region. These include measures to promote healthy eating and reduce teenage pregnancy.
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The core aims of the Regional Public Health Group are to
- improve and protect the public’s health
- tackle the underlying causes (wider determinants) of poor health and inequalities in health
- support action to deal with serious failures in standards of health care
- promote leadership and capacity development for public health
- ensure an integrated approach to economic, social, environmental and health development
Central to this is coordinating the necessary actions and planning to ensure that recommendations in the Public Health White Paper, ‘Choosing Health – Making healthy choices easier’, are put into practice.
Current work includes
- Food and nutrition.
- Tobacco control.
- Teenage pregnancy.
- Physical activity.
- Obesity.
- NHS employer procedures supportive of staff (recognising their other roles as parents, carers etc).
- Developing Local Area Agreements by partnerships and pooled funding between local government, primary care trusts, strategic health authorities and the voluntary and community sector, for children, young people and older people; developing more sustainable communities and developing healthier communities.
