Adam Briggs
@ADMBriggs
Public health consultant @OxfordshireCC & @HealthFdn. Hon Assoc Prof @Warwickmed. Past Harkness. Health/public health policy. Also @Stornowayband. Views own
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A systematic review and meta-analysis in BMC Medicine finds that a shift from animal-based (meat, eggs, dairy, butter) to plant-based (nuts, legumes, whole grains) foods lowers the risk of cardiovascular mortality, type 2 diabetes and all-cause mortality.
bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
New The Health Foundation report from us today looking at an important topic:
Have primary care networks (PCNs) widened gaps between general practices in more and less deprived areas?
Thread below on what we found. Read the full report here - health.org.uk/publications/r…
Local government has a vital role in our health.
This is a great piece from Jennie Leggat The Health Foundation in The MJ on how a decade of cuts to council budgets is impacting our health and what can be done to help.
LGA Wellbeing David Buck Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH)
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themj.co.uk/How-can-counci…
We have 🔥THREE🔥 new posts within Population Health Innovation Lab to work on projects related to food systems and sustainable diets: 2x posts in process evaluation of food system interventions and 1x post in epidemiology and/or data science. Closing Jan 2024. Come join us! jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancies.aspx…
⏲️ It's the last few days to share your views on our plans to create a smokefree generation and tackle youth vaping.
Professor Chris Whitty Professor Sir Chris Whitty explains why we're taking action.
Have your say before 11:59pm on Wednesday 6 December ⬇️
Thinking a fair bit about the gov's smoke-free generation policy at the moment and resurfaced this gem from Tobacco Control in 2013.
A wonderfully coherent argument about why the policy works, why it matters, and why its justified.
tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/22/sup…
Thinking a fair bit about the gov's smoke-free generation policy at the moment and resurfaced this gem from Tobacco Control in 2013.
A wonderfully coherent argument about why the policy works, why it matters, and why its justified.
tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/22/sup…
Where did the money for yesterday's tax cuts come from?
Here's the one chart Institute for Fiscal Studies summary of the Autumn Statement. Tax cuts were matched almost 1-for-1 by cuts in the real-terms generosity of public service budgets.