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  • Promoting health, preventing illness : public health perspectives on London's mental health.

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    Effective promotion of mental health and well being encompasses coordinated activities for communities, families and individuals. However, little is known about the current state of mental health and well being promotion in London. This paper seeks to fill that gap, drawing evidence from three 'case study' projects promoting mental health ... and This is one of a series of papers being produced in 2002/03 as part of the King's Fund Mental Health Inquiry. The Inquiry aims to assess whether London mental health and mental health services have improved over the last five years. In 1997 the King's Fund produced a report entitled ...

  • Improving health in London : case study : health talks for elderly Latin Americans.

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    While working as a volunteer at the Latin American Elderly Project, a day centre in Islington, Lucrecia Janowicz recognised that the older members of the project were unable to access the health information that they needed because they didn't speak English. She therefore decided to organise a series of talks ...

  • Managing for health : what incentives exist for NHS managers to focus on wider health issues?

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    Increased media and public attention to the potential costs of 'epidemics' such as obesity, the two Wanless reports on the future of the public's health and the recent public health White Paper 'Choosing heath' have all helped refocus priorities on a health promoting service rather than a 'sickness service'. However, ...

  • Managing for health : what incentives exist for NHS managers to focus on wider health issues?

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    Increased media and public attention to the potential costs of 'epidemics' such as obesity, the two Wanless reports on the future of the public's health and the recent public health White Paper 'Choosing heath' have all helped refocus priorities on a health promoting service rather than a 'sickness service'. However, ...

  • NICE technology appraisals.

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    The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is acknowledged as a world leader in its field, yet the prevailing media image of NICE is as a controversial mechanism for denying patients expensive new drugs. Teresa Poole looks at how NICE appraises new and existing drugs through clinical and ...

  • London's state of mind : King's Fund Mental Health Inquiry 2003.

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    Levenson, Ros, Greatley, Angela, The King's Fund, and Robinson, Janice
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    In 2002, the King's Fund commissioned a major inquiry into the state of the capital's mental health and mental health services and how far they meet the needs of service users. The inquiry set out to: investigate whether mental health care had improved in the capital since the King's Fund ...

  • Health and the London Mayor : learning from other cities : a discussion paper prepared for a King's Fund workshop February 2000

    Créateur:
    Kendall, Liz and King's Fund
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    This paper analyses the experiences of other city-wide authorities in the UK and internationally in improving health. It sets out which cities were studied and why, outlines the different ways in which Mayors work to affect change, identifies the available evidence of action to improve health in selected cities, and ...

  • Improving London's health : the role of the Greater London Authority

    Créateur:
    Davies, Anne, King's Fund, and Kendall, Elizabeth
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    The Greater London Authority, which provides London with its first directly elected Mayor, has important strategic powers and responsibilities that include a duty to improve the health of Londoners. This report considers how the GLA can best contribute to health improvement and to reducing health inequalities across the capital. It ...

  • Primary health care in cities : a whole systems approach

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    London Health Partnership and King's Fund
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    This pamphlet describes the whole systems approach taken by the London Health Partnership to achieve their aim of improving the well-being of older people by addressing long-standing problems of providing care and promoting health in cities. This summary was presented to the 1996 British Urban Regeneration Association Conference.

  • Tackling inequalities in health : an agenda for action

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    King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
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    This publication arose from a King's Fund response to Sir Donald Acheson's suggestion that the time was right to consider practical policy options for tackling inequalities in health. A seminar was held at Ditchley Park in September 1993 which brought together a wide range of people, from central and local ...