Discover the building blocks of a healthy society and the links between people’s health and inequalities and these wider factors

Sport England releases its Active Lives Adult Survey Report for 2023/24, showing record numbers of people are playing sport and taking part in physical activity.

Central to the government's mission to improve health and fix the NHS is a “shift from sickness to prevention.”1 Yet key indicators suggest we are moving in the wrong direction. Healthy life expectanc...

Public polling shows there is broad support for bolder population-level action on the leading risk factors of ill health, writes Adam Briggs.

Nearly three-quarters (73%) of the public support extending the indoor smoking ban to specific outside spaces to protect children and vulnerable people, including playgrounds, outside schools and hosp...

This year’s above inflation public health grant settlement is welcome.1 But with declining healthy life expectancy and funding still 26% lower per person than a decade ago, we need a multi-year fundin...

This year’s above inflation public health grant settlement is welcome.1 But with declining healthy life expectancy and funding still 26% lower per person than a decade ago, we need a multi-year fundin...

YouTube video by Health Equals

The public health grant has been cut by 28% on a real-terms per person basis since 2015/16.

The public health grant funds a range of important preventive services in England, but has been cut in real terms since 2015/16. We present three policy options to restore the grant and allocate it mo...