Public Health

What the evidence says about interventions to reduce pollution and improve lives – UK Health Security Agency

Breathing in polluted air affects our health, reduces our life expectancy, and costs our society billions of pounds each year. It is estimated that...
Public Health

How we protect the UK from vector-borne diseases like dengue and West Nile virus – UK Health Security Agency

Vector-borne diseases - illnesses transmitted to humans by organisms such as mosquitoes and ticks - account for more than 17% of all infectious diseases...

Proposed Legislation to Boycott Opioid Manufacturers Would Undermine the Public Health Response to Opioid Overdose

Over the past year, several bills that would impose novel restrictions on the purchasing of naloxone and other opioid antagonists (medications that reverse opioid...

Racial Equity Impact Assessments: A Valuable, Yet Underutilized, Tool to Address Structural Racism

Structural racism and other forms of discrimination are deeply embedded in laws, policies, and government actions. However, law can also be used to confront...

How factors like your location, job or ethnicity can damage your health – UK Health Security Agency

Health inequalities are avoidable differences in health across our populations. You can suffer health inequalities because of where you were born or live, your...

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