Kicking Bad Habits: Resources

Publications

King's Fund

• Nanny or Steward? The role of government in public health
• Managing for Health: what incentives exist for NHS managers to focus on wider health issues? (summary)
• Improving health at local level: the role of primary care
• Prevention rather than cure: making the case for choosing health (summary)

Department of Health

• Partnerships for better health: small change, big difference: healthier choices for life
• Choosing health: progress report – May 2007
• Choosing health: making healthy choices easier

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence

• Behaviour change: public health programme guidance

Foresight

• Tackling obesities: future choices – project report (second edition)

Cabinet Office: Prime Minister's Strategy Unit

• Personal Responsibility and Changing Behaviour: the state of knowledge and its implications for public policy

Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology

• 'Health behaviour', Postnote, no. 283, May 2007

Nuffield Council on Bioethics

• Public Health: Ethical issues

The Health Foundation

• Creating health in everyday life: the role of self-management in improving healthcare (article)

International Longevity Centre – UK

• Navigating health: the role of health literacy

Institute for Public Policy Research

• Improving our health: a holistic approach
• States of reason: freedom, responsibility and the governing of behaviour change

Association of Public Health Observatories

• Indications of public health in the English regions: 3: lifestyle and its impact on health

NHS Health Development Agency

• Economic appraisal of public health interventions: briefing paper

Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham

• Do citizens have obligations to their fellow taxpayers to take care of their own health and to use health services responsibly? Discussion paper two: would individual health obligations make us healthier?

Social Market Foundation

• Whose responsibility is it anyway? Perspectives on public health, the state and the individual

Resources

King's Fund Information and Library Service

• Download Health inequalities reading list (181 kb)
• Download Public health in England reading list (194 kb)

National Library for Health

• Choosing health – the role of primary care: hot topic