What are the key factors affecting our health? What is the latest evidence?
You can find out more in the recently published reports below:
Alcohol
Alcohol Framework - Scottish Government 2018
Adult drinking habits in Great Britain 2017 - Office for National Statistics 2018
Statistics on Alcohol England - NHS Digital 2020
Businesses and Health
Employers Guide to Health at Work - Health Action Campaign 2020
Healthy and Wealthy - Health Action Campaign 2015
Health on the High Street - Royal Society for Public Health 2015
Mental Health We’re Ready to Talk - Business in The Community 2015
Mental health and employers - refreshing the case for investment - Deloitte 2020
Sugar consumption at a crossroads - Credit Suisse 2013
Supporting mental health in the workplace - ACAS
Taxpayers subsidise big business by an estimated £11 billion a year - Citizens UK Report
The 21st century gingerbread house. How companies are marketing junk food to children online - British Heart Foundation 2015
Wellbeing at work a review of the literature - New Economics Foundation 2015
Diet
Sugar reduction, the evidence for action - Public Health England 2015
Carbohydrates and Health - Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition 2015
Food for thought Promoting healthy diets among children and young people - British Medical Association 2015
National Diet and Nutrition Survey - Public Health England 2018
Exercise
2018 Physical Activity Guidelines - Advisory Committee Scientific Report (US Department of Health and Human Sciences) 2018
Exercise: the miracle cure and the role of the doctor in promoting it - Academy of Medical Royal Colleges 2015
Impact of Physical Activity and Diet on Health - House of Commons Health Committee 2015
Physical Activity and Health, Facts and Figures - Sustrans
Physical Activity Guidelines - UK Chief Medical Officers 2019
The NHS
Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020's - HM Government 2019
Five Year Forward View 2014 - NHS
Prevention is better than cure - our vision to help you live well for longer - Department of Health and Social Care 2018
Obesity
Adult Obesity and type 2 Diabetes - Public Health England 2014
Childhood Obesity - A Plan for Action - HM Government 2016
Childhood Obesity - A Plan for Action, Chapter 2 - HM Government 2018
Overcoming Obesity: An initial economic analysis - McKinsey Global Institute 2014
Tackling England's childhood obesity crisis - Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health 2015
Time to solve childhood obesity an independent report by the Chief Medical Oficer - Professor Dame Sally Davies 2019
Public Health
Creating Healthy Lives - The Health Foundation 2019
Health Equity in England - Institute of Health Equity 2020
Public Health Outcomes Framework - Public Health England 2015
Smoking
Smoking Statistics Action on Smoking and Health 2020
Statistics on Smoking - NHS Digital 2019