Taken together, these papers remind us:
Public health isn’t only what services do — it’s what communities, workplaces and everyday professions already carry. #practicematters Find all of these papers online here journals.sagepub.com/toc/RSH/0/0
🏛️ And strong work on local authorities & health inequalities — reinforcing the role of place, power and prevention in reducing unequal outcomes. #localgovernment #councilscan @local.gov.uk
🕊️ Important reflections on workplaces supporting people at end of life — whether employees are dying themselves or caring for someone else. Compassion is a public health issue. #endoflife #dyingwell #hospices
🧠 #LongCOVID and working life features strongly too: what persistent illness means for workers, employers, accommodations and fairness at work.
💉 revisiting MMR vaccine equity, reminding us that access, trust and local systems — not just supply — shape immunisation outcomes.
🖋️ One standout: “We don’t just ink skin” — a qualitative study of tattoo artists responding to clients’ mental health disclosures.
It highlights trust, emotional labour, and care in non‑clinical spaces — a real #publichealth blind spot no longer invisible.
Some excellent recent papers in Perspectives in Public Health — great examples of public health happening in real lives, workplaces and communities. A short thread 🧵👇
journals.sagepub.com/toc/RSH/0/0 @rsph.bsky.social @journals.sagepub.com
10 Key messages on #OlderPeople health by @gerisoc.bsky.social - essential reading for policy-makers & commissioners - modern service framework #frailty & #EndofLifeCare #palliative 1. Number of people 85 years and older is expected to double by 2047 (1.7m increasing to 3.3m) www.bgs.org.uk/keymsgs
In the latest reflection on transdisciplinary #publichealth I look at parity of esteem across disciplines, and why we need a proper pluralism in methodological approaches. jimmcmanuswrites.substack.com/p/parity-of-...
How concerned should we be about the challenge to public trust in health and science expertise?
And what can be done about it?
Our Director of Communications and External Affairs, @leonoramerry.bsky.social, explores in this week's blog. 👇
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Public Health Wales’ new Help Me Quit (HMQ) mobile app, provides an additional route for people who want to quit with flexible, digital support, including those who may not want to use traditional stop smoking services. free, bilingual, 24/7
www.helpmequit.wales/download-the...
Link to Donella Meadows free book on systems mentioned by Cecile Knao in her keynote #BSPHN26 virtualmmx.ddns.net/gbooks/Thinkin…
BSPHN conference off to a flying start #BSPHN26 cdn.prod.website-files.com/63236652b830...
I gave a talk recently about transdisciplinary #publichealth with proposed ground rules like intellectual humility and parity of esteem across disciplines. I was encouraged to write it up for reflection. Link here
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Heddiw rydym wedi cyhoeddi gwerthusiad canlyniadau’r Rhaglen Atal Diabetes Cymru Gyfan (AWDPP). Mae’n dangos bod y rhaglen yn lleihau’r risg o ddatblygu diabetes math 2 bron 25% ymhlith pobl â rhag‑ddiabetes.
#Diabetes #Cymru
Darllenwch yr adroddiad: icc.gig.cymru/gwasanaethau...
New published today: the All Wales Diabetes Prevention Programme (AWDPP) reduces the risk of progressing to type 2 diabetes by nearly 25% for people with pre‑diabetes. Prevention works — and Wales is leading the way.
#Wales #Diabetes #PublicHealth
Read the report:
🔗 phw.nhs.wales/services-and...
We’re recruiting: Director of Health Improvement!
Lead national action to drive system-wide change for Wales.
If you’re a bold #publichealth leader ready to make real impact, this is your moment.
📍 National role
🤝 Cross-sector leader
🌱 Transform population health
phw.nhs.wales/careers/curr...
Matt Goodwin's on the precipice of arguing that The New Eliteᵀᴹ are co-opting the plumbing and plastering trades.
You can find the poster here #MCResearchConference2026!
#Endoflifecarematters #publichealth www.mariecurie.org.uk/document/mag...
Thrilled that the Centre for the Art of Living and Dying Well poster has been awarded joint runner‑up for the Joanna Mugridge Prize at the #MCResearchConference2026! 🎉 Big thanks and well done team!
We have a new paper out on #PublicHealth #Leadership development offering insights for strengthening leadership development for population health and prevention systems. Worth a read for anyone shaping policy or practice.
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Mae Let's Prevent #Diabetes yn rhaglen addysg ar-lein am ddim i unrhyw un sydd mewn perygl o ddatblygu diabetes math 2, sydd dros 18 oed ac yn byw yng Nghymru. Mae defnyddwyr hefyd yn nodi eu bod yn gwneud dewisiadau bwyd gwell, yn teimlo llai o straen ac yn fwy egnïol yn gorfforol #Cymru
Let's Prevent #Diabetes is a FREE, online education programme for anyone at risk of developing type 2 diabetes, who is over the age of 18 and living in Wales. · Users say it helps making better food choices, feeling less stressed and being more physically active #Wales
Mae MyDESMOND yn rhaglen addysg ar-lein am ddim i unrhyw un sydd wedi cael diagnosis o ddiabetes math 2, sydd dros 18 oed ac yn byw yng Nghymru. · Mae 88% o ddefnyddwyr o Gymru yn cytuno bod yr wybodaeth yn MyDESMOND yn werthfawr #Diabetes #Cymru
MyDESMOND is a free, online education programme for anyone with a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes over the age of 18 and living in Wales. · 88% of users from Wales agree that the information in MyDESMOND is valuable #Diabetes #Wales #PublicHealth
Leo XIV on #onehealth #prevention and #determinants of health www.vatican.va/content/leo-... “It is often said that life and health are equally fundamental values for all, but this statement is hypocritical if…we ignore the structural causes and policies that determine inequalities.”
Check out this short blog about current support for people with rare cancers - imp given gov’s recent launch of Cancer Plan @patientlibrary.bsky.social @tackleprostate.bsky.social @charlotteaugst.bsky.social @andybell-centremh.bsky.social @jimmcmanusph.bsky.social www.localdemocracyandhealth.com
It's a fascinating chapter Jim highlighting the importance of multidisciplinary working in tackling problems in health. Lots to reflect on an implement.
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
A pleasant surprise of a hard copy arriving from the publishers. Was great to write with the amazing Michelle Constable link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
