Resources

International Horizon Scanning and Learning to Inform Wales’ COVID-19 Public Health Response and Recovery – 14 May 2020

The International Horizon Scanning and Learning work stream was initiated as a product of, and to inform upon, the evolving COVID-19 public health response and recovery plans in Wales. It focuses on COVID-19 international evidence, experience, measures and transition / recovery approaches, to understand and explore solutions for addressing the on-going and emerging health, wellbeing, social and economic impacts (potential harms and benefits).
Topics of focus are:
Impact on employment and related financial and health burden
Impact on vulnerable groups
Country insight: Sweden

These reports were used during the period of the Covid 19 pandemic in order to inform the Public Health Wales response and therefore only available in English.

Health and financial burden of adverse childhood experiences in England and Wales: a combined primary data study of five surveys 

A Study to estimate the health and financial burden of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in England and Wales.

Public Engagement Survey on Health and Wellbeing during Coronavirus Measures – Week 5

Public Health Wales conducted a public engagement telephone survey to ask members of the public in Wales how coronavirus and related control measures are affecting their health and wellbeing. Weekly Survey reports aimed to provide data representative of the Welsh population and data are adjusted to represent the Welsh population by age, sex and deprivation.

Public Engagement Survey on Health and Wellbeing during Coronavirus – demographic variables

Public Health Wales conducted a public engagement telephone survey to ask members of the public in Wales how coronavirus and related control measures are affecting their health and wellbeing. Weekly Survey reports aimed to provide data representative of the Welsh population and data are adjusted to represent the Welsh population by age, sex and deprivation.

International Horizon Scanning and Learning to Inform Wales’ COVID-19 Public Health Response and Recovery – 7 May 2020

The International Horizon Scanning and Learning work stream was initiated as a product of, and to inform upon, the evolving COVID-19 public health response and recovery plans in Wales. It focuses on COVID-19 international evidence, experience, measures and transition / recovery approaches, to understand and explore solutions for addressing the on-going and emerging health, wellbeing, social and economic impacts (potential harms and benefits).
Topics of focus are:
Impact on care homes and other enclosed settings
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Impact on the education system
Transition approaches and considerations
Country insight: Spain

These reports were used during the period of the Covid 19 pandemic in order to inform the Public Health Wales response and therefore only available in English.

Public Engagement Survey on Health and Wellbeing during Coronavirus Measures – Week 4

Public Health Wales conducted a public engagement telephone survey to ask members of the public in Wales how coronavirus and related control measures are affecting their health and wellbeing. Weekly Survey reports aimed to provide data representative of the Welsh population and data are adjusted to represent the Welsh population by age, sex and deprivation.

The social value of investing in public health across the life course: a systematic scoping review

This review maps an overview of the application of Social Return on Investment (SROI) and Social Cost-Benefit Analysis (SCBA) in existing literature to identify the social value of public health interventions at individual stages of the life course.

Prevent – Strategy to prevent serious youth violence in South Wales 2020 -2023

This strategy has been developed by the Wales Violence Prevention Unit. It is designed as a framework for the prevention of serious youth violence in South Wales. The primary audience is policy makers and professionals working on preventing and responding to serious youth violence. It is designed to empower individuals, communities and organisations to take a public health approach to violence prevention, with the support and leadership of the Violence Prevention Unit.

Public Engagement Survey on Health and Wellbeing during Coronavirus Measures – Week 3

Public Health Wales conducted a public engagement telephone survey to ask members of the public in Wales how coronavirus and related control measures are affecting their health and wellbeing. Weekly Survey reports aimed to provide data representative of the Welsh population and data are adjusted to represent the Welsh population by age, sex and deprivation.

Public acceptability of public health policy to improve population health: a population-based survey

A study to explore public acceptance of public health statements in Wales.

Adverse childhood experiences in child refugee and asylum seeking populations 

This report aims to bring together what we know about ACEs in refugee and asylum seeking children arriving and settling into host countries, highlighting their nature, extent and impact.

Public Engagement Survey on Health and Wellbeing during Coronavirus Measures – Week 2

Public Health Wales conducted a public engagement telephone survey to ask members of the public in Wales how coronavirus and related control measures are affecting their health and wellbeing. Weekly Survey reports aimed to provide data representative of the Welsh population and data are adjusted to represent the Welsh population by age, sex and deprivation.

An evaluation of the Adverse Childhood Experience Trauma Informed Multi-agency Early Action Together (ACE TIME) training: national roll out to police and partners

The pan-Wales Early Action Together (E.A.T.) programme aimed to develop a whole systems response to vulnerability to enable police and multi-agency (MA) partners to recognise signs of vulnerability at the earliest opportunity and to work together to provide access to support beyond statutory services. Key to achieving this was the development and delivery of the Adverse Childhood Experience Trauma Informed Multi-agency Early Action Together (ACE TIME) training programme. The current report evaluated the phase one roll out of the ACE TIME training (from September 2018 to January 2019).

Serious Youth Violence in South Wales Strategic Needs Assessment: Highlight Report

This report provides an assessment of the epidemiology of serious youth violence in the SW police force area. This includes the established and emerging trends in violence, the cohorts most vulnerable to involvement in violence, the risk and protective factors for violence and the impact of violence on health care systems.

Health Impact and Social Value of Interventions, Services, and Policies: A Methodological Discussion of Health Impact Assessment and Social Return on Investment Methodologies

Assessing the positive and negative impact of policies, services and interventions on health and well-being is of great importance to public health. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) and Social Return on Investment (SROI) are established methodologies which assess potential effects on health and well-being, including social, economic and environmental factors, indicating synergies, and cross-over in their approach. Within this paper, we explore how HIA and SROI could complement each other to capture and account for the impact and social value of an assessed intervention or policy.

Three Horizons Toolkit

The Horizon toolkit can help public bodies and people in general to think and plan for the longer term rather than being so stuck in the here and now that they miss the opportunities , don’t spot risks or make decisions that don’t stand the test of time.

Young People and Brexit

In the years that have followed the European Union (EU) referendum in 2016, Brexit has seldom been out of the news. Despite considerable activity, there was still uncertainty around Brexit at the time of this research; not just around the logistics of if, when and how the UK might leave the EU but also what the implications of Brexit might be for the UK and for Wales – or even what effect the last few years might already have had.

Life course health consequences and associated annual costs of adverse childhood experiences across Europe and North America: a meta-analysis

An increasing number of studies are identifying associations between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and ill health throughout the life course. We aimed to calculate the proportions of major risk factors for and causes of ill health that are attributable to one or multiple types of ACE and the associated financial costs.

Mental health selection: common mental disorder and migration between multiple states of deprivation in a UK cohort

This study investigates to what extent poor mental health influences selective migration.

The Full Cost of Poor Housing in Wales

This joint report from the BRE Trust, Public Health Wales and Welsh Government looks in detail at the links between poor housing conditions, in this case ‘hazards in the home’ and their impact on health and well-being and cost to the NHS and wider society. It supplements findings in the previously published Making a Difference Housing and Health: A Case for Investment report, and also builds on previous publications by the BRE Trust and Shelter.

Population Health in a Digital Age

This report examines population health in a digital age and focuses on social media use in Wales. These insights help us to better understand the extent to which people in Wales use social media, and how patterns of use vary across population groups. The findings challenge some preconceptions (for example, that only younger age groups engage with social media), and identify opportunities warranting further consideration.

Be the Change – Helping Nature to Flourish

Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts now likely on people around the world. Our health and well-being depends upon a healthy environment, which includes using our natural resources in a sustainable way and supporting biodiversity.
This e-guide will help individuals take action for biodiversity at every opportunity to reverse its decline in Wales and globally, for its intrinsic value, and to secure our own well-being.

Making Space for Nature – Public Health Wales’ Biodiversity Plan

Making Space for Nature is Public Health Wales’ Biodiversity Plan to maintain and enhance biodiversity and promote the resilience of ecosystems.
Healthy ecosystems are vital for health and well-being, providing our food, clothing and medicines, regulating our air and water and controlling disease. However, biodiversity is in decline.
The Environment (Wales) Act 2016 sets out the requirement for the ‘sustainable management of natural resources’ together with new ways of working to achieve this. Under the Environment (Wales) Act 2016, public bodies are required to maintain and enhance biodiversity and promote the resilience of ecosystems in order to reverse this trend, as part of the S6 Duty.

Improving winter health and well-being and reducing winter pressures in Wales 

This report aims to describe the impact of winter and cold weather on health and well-being in Wales and the subsequent effects on health and care services, in a way that can inform strategic planning for the future.

Improving winter health and well-being and reducing winter pressures in Wales – Technical Report

This technical report acknowledges the effects of traditional seasonal factors that cause poor health such as influenza and injuries due to falls, as well as finding wider issues such as poverty, poor housing and unhealthy behaviours having a significant impact on winter health and well-being.

Developing a routine surveillance and analysis system for early intervention and prevention of violence: A multi-agency perspective (South Wales model)

Efforts for local violence prevention have used mainly emergency department (ED) data to inform police operations. However, research has shown the effectiveness of health data sharing in violence prevention. This project builds on this evidence and utilises data from Police, the Ambulance Service and EDs from three health boards to provide a holistic representation of violence at a local level so that contributing factors can be identified and used to inform preventative action. This report outlines the set up of a local routine surveillance system to inform violence prevention.

Charter Toolkit

The purpose of the toolkit is to support the implementation of the Charter for International Health Partnerships in Wales.

SIFT – Sustainability Improvement for Teams

SIFT stands for Sustainability Improvements For Teams and the SIFT workshop is being developed to support the delivery of the Well-being of Future Generations Act which:
• makes public bodies accountable for appropriately embedding the five ways of working in all work;
• requires public bodies to demonstrate how they have done this. SIFT workshops create an evidence base and this pool of evidence can be incorporated into the objectives of the organisation to support improved learning, planning, collaboration and delivery of the Wellbeing of Future Generations Act.

The Public Health Implications of Brexit in Wales: A Health Impact Assessment approach – A Rapid Review and Update

This is a short supplementary follow up report and builds on a detailed analysis of The Public Health Implications of Brexit in Wales: A Health Impact Assessment Approach, originally published in January 2019, which examines the potential effects of Brexit on the short, medium and long-term health and well-being of people living in Wales.

Understanding the association between self-reported poor oral health and exposure to adverse childhood experiences: a retrospective study

Adverse childhood experiences, including physical, sexual or emotional abuse, can have detrimental impacts on child and adult health. However, little research has explored the impact that such early life experiences have on oral health. This study examines whether experiencing adverse childhood experiences before the age of 18 years is associated with self-reported poor dental health in later life.