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Population health and prevention. Sue Longden Assistant Director of Public Health 27 th February 2017. What is population health?. The health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group.
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Population health and prevention Sue Longden Assistant Director of Public Health 27th February 2017
What is population health? • The health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group. • These may be geographic populations such as neighbourhoods or communities, but can also be other groups such as employees, ethnic groups, disabled persons,orany other defined group.
Starting Well • Smoking in pregnancy • Breastfeeding • Low birth weight babies • Children – healthy weight at reception and year 6 • Living Well • Alcohol admissions • Deaths from vascular disease, cancer, respiratory disease and liver disease
Ageing well • Falls prevention • Dementia diagnosis • Admissions to residential and care homes • Preventable emergency admissions • Social isolation • All Ages • Healthy life expectancy • Inequalities in life expectancy within Bolton
Bolton’s Population Health Plan • Social Prescribing • Community Asset Development • Voluntary Sector Capacity Development • Falls Prevention • Suicide Prevention • Self-care • Healthy weight • Physical activity • Dementia prevention
GM Population Health Priorities • Asset Based approaches • Health as a social movement • Early Years Strategy • Smoking in Pregnancy • Oral Health • Work and Health • New Models of Primary care • Lifestyle and wellness • Tobacco Control • Physical activity • Alcohol • Food and Healthy weight • Cancer Prevention and early Detection • HIV eradication
GM Population Health Priorities (continued) • Housing • Nutrition and Hydration in older people • Falls Prevention • Developing a unified Public Health System for GM • Social Value