Sara ThomasPublic Health Wales, Merthyr Tydfil and Cardiff · Cwm Taf Public Health Team
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The schools-based influenza vaccination programme has seen consistently high uptake in Wales, however coverage in preschool two and three-year olds is lower. One health board area (Cwm Taf University Health Board (UHB)) developed an intervention to offer live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) for three-year olds attending nursery schools alongsid...
Introduction
The Inverse Care Law (ICL) programme in Wales was setup to tackle health inequalities. Eligible populations from deprived communities, at higher risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) were invited to a health-check and offered appropriate lifestyle and clinical interventions.
Objectives and Approach
Evaluation of this programme is vital...
Introduction
The Inverse Care Law (ICL) programme in Wales was setup to identify people in deprived communities at risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) through a health check; offering lifestyle and medical intervention as appropriate. Evaluation of this programme to tackle health inequalities ensuring services are available is vital.
Objectives a...
Background
The Inverse Care Law (ICL) programme was set up in South Wales valleys and aiming to achieve a measurable closing of the gap in health outcomes between the most and least deprived areas. Objectives
People in deprived communities in Wales were invited for health checks to identify risks of cardiovascular disease followed by targeted inter...
Wales faces serious public health challenges, with relatively low life expectancies and wide inequalities in life expectancy with associated pressures on the National Health Service (NHS) at a time of financial recession. This has led to growing recognition of the need to better understand the range of health improvement and prevention programmes a...
Wales spends more than £60 million per year on national public health improvement programmes, which currently are largely without a systematic evidence base or rationale. Economic evidence for public health programmes is sparse. However, it is essential to help inform policy and implementation. Owen and colleagues (2010) synthesised the evidence of...