Public health & prevention
Public health & prevention
Services and interventions to prevent noncommunicable diseases and other life-threatening illnesses. Public health is about helping people to stay healthy and protecting them from threats to their health.
The NHS Long Term Plan aims to support people to live longer, healthier lives by helping them to make healthier lifestyle choices and treating illness at an early stage.
Public health & prevention
The NHS Long Term Plan has a strong focus on the treatment and prevention of illness by supporting patients to adopt improved healthy behaviours. This will both help people to live longer, have healthier lives, and reduce the demand for and delays in treatment and care.
This includes targeting, improving and reducing the burden of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) from cancer, to diabetes and mental health to cardiac services.
UK services can provide:
- Introduction of national and local systems to improve population health, prevent disease and reduce the burden of disease for individuals and economies.
- Consultancy to support the introduction of national technical assistance bodies.
- Strategies to support public health protection and improvement interventions.
- Advisory support for managing improvements in population health.
- Delivery of screening services to prevent and manage NCDs, physical and mental health.
Public health & prevention
Organisations that specialise in public health & prevention
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Public health & prevention
Case study: The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is responsible for protecting every member of every community from the impact of infectious diseases, chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear incidents and other health threats. We provide intellectual, scientific and operational leadership at national and local level, as well as on the global stage, to make the nation’s health secure.
UKHSA was formally established with a global to local reach to protect the health of the nation from infectious diseases and other external threats to health by combining leading edge science and analytics, insightful planning and responsive operational excellence.