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Updated findings on Health Behaviour change conversations research

In late 2016 Public Health Wales NHS Trust (PHW) commissioned Beaufort Research to carry out independent research into health behaviour change conversations with the general public. The overall purpose of the research was to gain a greater understanding of the health behaviour change conversations that are taking place between health professionals and the general public in Wales. The research results will inform the improvement and future development of activity to enable health behaviour change conversations in Wales.

In late 2012 the UK Chief Medical Officers commissioned two expert groups to consider whether previous alcohol guidelines should be updated. Both expert groups worked through 2013 and reported to the UK CMOs in February 2014. The group concluded that there is significant new, good quality evidence available on the effects of alcohol consumption on health, which was not available at the time of the 1995 review. This applies for both men and women. In particular, stronger evidence has emerged that the risk of a range of cancers, especially breast cancer, increases directly in line with consumption of any amount of alcohol.

Work redesign and health promotion in healthcare organisations: a review of the literature

There is no standard definition of wellbeing. The Coalition Government’s Public Health White Paper defines wellbeing as “a positive physical, social and mental state”. There is general agreement that physical, social, environmental and psychological factors influence wellbeing. Wellbeing emerges from these influences because we actively construct our own view of ourselves and our wellbeing in the context of the world around us and our experiences

Therefore the costs of mental illness and thus the potential benefits of prevention are extremely high. Mental health promotion interventions often intend to raise self esteem, strengthen individuals’ life and coping skills and emotional resilience

The aim of SAPM3 is to appraise the impact of alcohol pricing policy options on a range of health care and societal outcomes. We have broken down the aims into a linked series of policy impacts to be modeled The effect of the policy on the distribution of prices for different types of alcohol; The effect of changes in price distributions on patterns of both on-trade and off-trade alcohol consumption; The effect of changes in alcohol consumption patterns on levels of alcohol-related health harms