Health Promotion

 

NICE Guidance for Health Promotion

The National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence’s work programme

NICE provides guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating ill health. NICE’s work on health promotion is led by the Centre for Public Health Excellence, under the direction of Professor Mike Kelly. A major effort has been made to engage with local government, including a good working relationship with IDeA, as well as with the NHS.

The list of guidance below is correct up to December 2008. To access the guidance listed below and check for more recent guidance, go to www.nice.org.uk

Guidance is divided into Public Health Programmes and Public Health Interventions. Public Health Programmes guidance will be of particular interest to readers of this website and includes:

• Obesity (joint clinical and public health guideline)
• Behaviour Change (spanning psychological and sociological approaches)
• Physical Activity and the Environment (particularly for local authorities as well as the NHS)
• Community Engagement (perhaps of particular interest to health promotion practitioners)
• Smoking Cessation (a comprehensive guide to the provision of smoking cessation services)
• Maternal and Child Nutrition

Public Health Interventions guidance includes:

• Physical activity in primary care
• Smoking cessation in primary care
• Preventing teen conceptions and sexually transmitted infections
• Substance misuse and vulnerable young people
• Supporting the smoking ban
• Alcohol and schools
• Primary schools and children’s mental wellbeing (universal and targeted approaches)
• Physical activity in the workplace
• Preventing the uptake of smoking in children
• Reducing mortality in highly disadvantaged communities
• Mental health and older people
• Mental health and the workplace

For more information on NICE public health guidance go to www.nice.org.uk