The Choosing Health White Paper sets out the principles for supporting the public to make healthier and more informed choices in regards to their health. This section contains policy information and publications related to, or produced as a result of, the commitments made by the White Paper.
Published in November 2004, the White Paper enabled the public to set the health agenda for the future. The subjects tackled in it emerged from a consultation that sought to hear the views of the public and other interested parties.
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Learning case examples and best practice from the pilot areas of Communities for Health. These pilots detail how communities have addressed a wide range of health issues and tackled health inequalities. Rural and urban deprived areas have worked to address obesity, healthy eating, mental health and sexual health.
The annual Health profile of England provides a collation of national and regional data to provide a baseline against which people can compare data from their own local health profile. In addition, a range of international comparisons are presented.
Report (October 2006) on the successes of Choosing Health: making healthier choices easier, setting out a strategic plan for delivery for the next two years.
Progress reports on the Choosing Health commitments and the joint contributions of all the departments involved.
A key principle of Choosing Health is that people should be supported to make healthier choices, rather than having decisions imposed upon them. The White Paper set out action that would make better health a real consumer choice.
Health-related social marketing is the systematic application of marketing concepts and approaches to achieve behavioural goals relevant to improving health and reducing health inequalities. Choosing Health sets out the importance of using a social marketing approach to encourage positive health behaviour.
Action to encourage people to eat more healthily, and especially to protect children from unhealthy choices, is set out in Choosing Health and Choosing a better diet.
Choosing Health and Choosing activity see the community as playing a key role in promoting physical activity and tackling health inequalities.
A key principle of Choosing Health is that people should be supported to make healthier choices, rather than having decisions imposed upon them. The White Paper set out action that would make better health a real consumer choice.
Delivering the priorities set out in Choosing Health will depend on promoting personal health, developing the workforce, building in research and development, and using information and intelligence.
An ambitious strategy put together by the Department of Health and Department for Work and Pensions, and the Health and Safety Executive to improve the health and wellbeing of working age people.
