Public health gets a boost in NHS streamlining

NHS Health Check betrays the ethos of public health.

NHS Choices has gone to town on the NHS Health Check project. New web pages aim to encourage people to use this “sophisticated check of your heart health.” Through blood pressure, cholesterol, and body mass index being “properly checked,” they say that strokes, diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, and some forms of dementia can “often be prevented.” Helping people to stop smoking, increasin...

Mimotope vaccine efficacy gets a "boost" from native tumor antigens

Tumor-associated antigen (TAA)-targeting mimotope peptides exert more prominent immunostimulatory functions than unmodified TAAs, with the caveat that some T-cell clones exhibit a relatively low affinity for TAAs. Combining mimotope-based vaccines with native TAAs in a prime-boost setting significantly improves antitumor immunity.

Public Expectations & the NHS

Perinatal Mental Health: A Public Health Concern

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Postcode Lotteries in Public Health - The NHS Health Checks Programme in North West London

BACKGROUND Postcode lotteries in health refer to differences in health care between different geographic areas. These have been previously associated with clinical services. However there has been little documentation of postcode lotteries relating to preventative health care services. This paper describes a postcode lottery effect in relation to the NHS Health Checks Programme (a national card...