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On profiting from poor health - a simple (we hope) visual summary of the tactics used and harms caused by unhealthy commodity industries
#CDOH
By my excellent colleague Joel and me (mainly Joel...)
@DrMattTyrer
@PH__Anna
@spidermaani
@felly500
@JanooAmanda
1/4
The idea of “prevention is better than cure” is older than most health systems.
And yet we still organise those systems around cure.
I traced the history of the phrase and what it reveals about the gap between what we say we value and what we actually prioritise.
More below 👇
Full piece here:
publichealthy.co.uk/an-incom…
If we really believed prevention was better than cure, what would we be doing differently?
Two thousand years of "prevention is better than cure"
From Ancient China to @MichaelMarmot, we've been saying the same thing - so why is prevention still so difficult?
publichealthy.co.uk/an-incom…
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New blog: Two thousand years of “prevention is better than cure”
Let me know of any good examples I’ve missed!
publichealthy.co.uk/an-incom…
New blog: Two thousand years of “prevention is better than cure”
Let me know of any good examples I’ve missed!
publichealthy.co.uk/an-incom…
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@pubhealthjobsuk
Director of Public Health
Cheshire East Council
Crewe (and hybrid)
£101k to £120k
Closes 28/11
jobs.cheshireeast.gov.uk/vac….
We’re exploring a new network in North West England focused on how economic systems can support better health and equity and how a healthy population drives economic success. Help shape it:
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Prettier version of this diagram now published in Matt Tyrer's final Public Health Annual Report for Cheshire East Council: moderngov.cheshireeast.gov.u…
On profiting from poor health - a simple (we hope) visual summary of the tactics used and harms caused by unhealthy commodity industries
#CDOH
By my excellent colleague Joel and me (mainly Joel...)
@DrMattTyrer
@PH__Anna
@spidermaani
@felly500
@JanooAmanda
1/4
Can anyone who believes that public health and population health are different fields/professions/whatever point out something - a process, technique, intervention, focus, anything - that would be classed as population health but not public health?
1/6. Today we launched our @thekingsfund report on #publichealth and #populationhealth #leading together. A summary of key points follow. We make a limited no of recs for national leaders, and share examples of how things are working well in practice kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and…
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Can anyone convince me from a public health or other perspective that “ultra-processed food” (#UPF) is meaningful, useful or adds anything to what we already knew? Here's why I think "ultra-processed" is a confusing and unhelpful term:
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A *new* @POST_UK #postnote on ultra-processed foods and health post.parliament.uk/research-… #UPF. Another one for @andykturner?
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a fabulous thread on the nonsense that is #upf - someone at last asking "but is a lot of it good for you?" and finding that largely, the answer is "yes".
Can anyone convince me from a public health or other perspective that “ultra-processed food” (#UPF) is meaningful, useful or adds anything to what we already knew? Here's why I think "ultra-processed" is a confusing and unhelpful term:
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.@andykturner great questions here and can empathise with your reflections about the risks of potentially stigmatising consumption of UPF.
Retweeting to widen the net of responses.
Can anyone convince me from a public health or other perspective that “ultra-processed food” (#UPF) is meaningful, useful or adds anything to what we already knew? Here's why I think "ultra-processed" is a confusing and unhelpful term:
Can anyone convince me from a public health or other perspective that “ultra-processed food” (#UPF) is meaningful, useful or adds anything to what we already knew? Here's why I think "ultra-processed" is a confusing and unhelpful term:
Finally, see some proper critiques from people much cleverer than me:
- From Eric Robinson, @LivUniIPH: liverpool.ac.uk/population-h…
- From @FoodDrinkEU: fooddrinkeurope.eu/wp-conten…
- Various useful, critical responses to recently published review: bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2023…
- Various response to (often unpublished) studies that made the news: sciencemediacentre.org/?s=ul…
