1. Population health and prevention
Sue Longden
Assistant Director of Public Health
27th February 2017

2. What is population health?
The health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group.
These may be geographic populations such as neighbourhoods or communities, but can also be other groups such as employees, ethnic groups, disabled persons,or any other defined group.

3. Our Local Aspirations

4. Starting Well Living Well Smoking in pregnancy Breastfeeding
Low birth weight babies
Children – healthy weight at reception and year 6
Living Well
Alcohol admissions
Deaths from vascular disease, cancer, respiratory disease and liver disease

5. Ageing well All Ages Falls prevention Dementia diagnosis
Admissions to residential and care homes
Preventable emergency admissions
Social isolation
All Ages
Healthy life expectancy
Inequalities in life expectancy within Bolton

6. Bolton’s Population Health Plan
Social Prescribing
Community Asset Development
Voluntary Sector Capacity Development
Falls Prevention
Suicide Prevention
Self-care
Healthy weight
Physical activity
Dementia prevention

7. GM Population Health Priorities
Asset Based approaches
Health as a social movement
Early Years Strategy
Smoking in Pregnancy
Oral Health
Work and Health
New Models of Primary care
Lifestyle and wellness
Tobacco Control
Physical activity
Alcohol
Food and Healthy weight
Cancer Prevention and early Detection
HIV eradication

8. GM Population Health Priorities (continued)
Housing
Nutrition and Hydration in older people
Falls Prevention
Developing a unified Public Health System for GM
Social Value