- Posted By: Vicki Barber
Over the coming decades, the UK population will face a wide range of complex health challenges and opportunities, many of which can only be fully addressed through strategies to secure and improve the health of the public as a whole. The Academy’s report, ‘Improving the health of the public by 2040’, explores how to organise our research environment to generate and translate the evidence needed to underpin such strategies.
The report concludes that while public health research has provided fundamental insights into human health, there remains much we do not know about the complex array of interlinking factors that influence the health of the public, and about how to prevent and solve the many health challenges we face as a population.
Solving these challenges will require shifting towards a ‘health of the public’ approach, involving disciplines that would not usually be considered to be within the public health field. This is turn requires six key developments:
1. Rebalancing and enhancing the coordination of research.
2. Harnessing new technologies and the digital revolution.
3. Developing transdisciplinary research capacity.
4. Aligning perspectives and approaches between clinical and public health practice.
5. Working with all sectors of society, including policymakers, practitioners, the commercial sector and the public.
6. Engaging globally.
This link will take you to a short 2 minute video about the report: https://youtu.be/VUBDnGGABug
To access the report, click the link: http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/policy/policy-projects/health-of-the-public-in...