Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Real prevention is primarily; eradicate poverty, good housing, active transport, adequate childcare, green spaces, tobacco/food/sugar/alcohol/gambling legislation - and over that, a well funded primary care service.

Paging May van Schalkwyk Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social Anna Brook:

🆕Published today, the first annual report of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB). The publication provides greater insight into attitudes and gambling behaviours.

We are delighted to see the revised National Planning Policy Framework has new wording in it stating that a purpose of the planning system will be to support healthy communities, with reducing obesity rates and tackling hot food takeaways near schools an explicit priority!

£3million health equity fund available for community, voluntary sector organisations. Part of an Legal & General and The Sir Michael Marmot Institute of Health Equity Sir Michael Marmot collaboration. Expressions of interest by 2nd Sept. Apply via the Health Equity Network healthequitynetwork.co.uk

Metaphors play a vital role in policy debates – they help us to make sense of the highly complex world in which we live and shape the decisions we make & actions we take. 🧵

'The August 2024 riots: Empowerment of the xenophobes' New blogpost with brief social psych perspective on the week's awful events. Please share. blogs.sussex.ac.uk/crowdsidentiti…

Alcohol industry bodies should not be involved in developing public health policies, funding, education, health promotion or in perceived partnership with public bodies, says a new IAS report, which provides a checklist of actions. IAS ias.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

🚨Thanks 2 marco zenone for leading our new paper JMIR Publications jmir.org/2024/1/e56354 ($0):“Selling Misleading “Cancer Cure” Books on Amazon: Systematic Search on Amazon.com and Thematic Analysis #CDoH Marco Zenone @GHPUEdinburgh May van Schalkwyk Greg Hartwell Nason Maani 🧵

GSK has agreed to pay $2.2 billion to settle most of the pending lawsuits that claimed a discontinued version of the Zantac heartburn medication caused cancer. trib.al/D0EaSEx

The analogy between social media and a town square/ marketplace of ideas is a poor one because social media algorithms determine which views are most valuable and amplified. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Fascinating article HT Nicholas Barrett, highly recommend.

In March 2006, Professor Daniel Oppenheimer published a paper that argued writers seem more intelligent when using simple words than fancy ones. His paper was titled “Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly”

A desperate attempt by the UK Spirits Alliance to push for a cut to alcohol duty, by claiming it would be unfair on women What is definitely unfair is that deaths from alcohol among women have increased by a huge 91% from 2001-2022 Cutting duty increases consumption and deaths

*New* The Health Foundation report with Una Geary We call for gov to take action to fix the post-Public Health England structural challenges facing the national and regional public health system in England Read more in The BMJ👇 bmj.com/content/387/bm… Link to full rpt at end of🧵

The UK CMOs, DCMOs and NHSE National Medical Director have given advice to help doctors wanting to take part in the national debate on assisted dying. Please see the letter below: gov.uk/government/pub…

Ah yes, Pepsi, Nestle, McDonald's, and Uber Eats - essential partners in the UK's quest for food security.

Updated British Thoracic Society (BTS) position statement on tobacco and vaping. brit-thoracic.org.uk/document-libra… ThoraxBMJ

📊The latest NHS Digital data on smoking, drinking, and drug use among young people in England is out. The report contains results from the latest survey of secondary school pupils in England in years 7 to 11 (mostly aged 11 to 15). 🧵Some key findings: digital.nhs.uk/data-and-infor…

This data should be the impetus the Government needs to bring forward legislation for first reading. #SmokefreeUK ash.org.uk/media-centre/n…