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MECC Link - helps you through the conversation

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MECC Link - helps you through the conversation

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MECC Link - Simple Signposting to Better Health and Wellbeing

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MECC Link - Simple signposting to better health and wellbeing

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MECC Link is a simple but flexible online tool that has been carefully designed to support an approach to positive behaviour change called 'Making Every Contact Count' (MECC). MECC Link helps you to raise awareness, motivate and signpost people to help them to improve their health and wellbeing.

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About the All Our Health Programme

The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities' All Our Health framework is a call to action to all health and care professionals to embed prevention within their day-to-day work. Through educational materials, tools and resources, All Our Health helps professionals make an even greater impact in preventing illness, protecting health, promoting wellbeing and reducing health inequalities.

This short introductory video explains how All Our Health:

takes a life course approach and supports change at individual, community and population level

presents key evidence and data on important public health topics to stimulate action

signposts to other trusted sources of information

builds leadership and capacity across the workforce

All Our Health elearning sessions

The All Our Health elearning sessions have been developed to provide a bite-sized introduction to the wide range of topics covered within the All Our Health framework. Within these sessions, you'll find signposting to trusted sources of helpful evidence, guidance and support. You can dip in and out of the content as and when you need it.

Currently, there are 33 All Our Health elearning sessions available covering a wide variety of public health topics.

There are a wide range of other All Our Health topics which will be created into elearning sessions and released as they are developed. To view the full range of All Our Health topics, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/all-our-health-personalised-care-and-population-health.

All Our Health supports system wide priorities on prevention, including those within the NHS Long Term Plan, by providing support and practical guidance for all health and care professionals on how to embed prevention within their work, helping to reduce health inequalities, premature morbidity and mortality.

Interactive Townscapes

These interactive townscapes enable professionals to easily identify and access information, data and guidance, by clicking on different locations in the scene.

Supporting tools and resources

Embedding Public Health into Clinical Service

All Our Health Communications Toolkit

Use the All Our Health communications toolkit to promote and share these important resources across your networks and organisations. An interactive animation will be available soon.

All Our Health Implementation Toolkit *New*

The All Our Health implementation toolkit supports a practical approach to implementing the All Our Health resources and tools on critical public health issues. It has been developed for higher education institutions, provider trusts and other organisations wanting to enhance their existing curricula and/or continuing professional development offer on public and population health. Engagement with this programme will assist in preparing the current and future health and care workforce to maximise their public health impact.

All Our Health is also identified in the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan as a key resource to support delivery of workforce ambitions on prevention, early intervention and health inequalities.
The toolkit includes: How to use the toolkit: for implementation leads
We recommend that you read through the entire content of the toolkit to familiarise yourself with all of the information. We suggest that you share the introduction slide set with your senior leadership teams to obtain buy-in and consent. The slide set for learners provides an overview of the All Our Health resources and tools which they can then go on to explore for themselves.

The guidance and support slides set out the implementation process in detail including governance and reporting considerations. The case studies, testimonials and list of key contacts provide added information and support.

How To Access

Available to all

The All Our Health programme is freely available to access here.
Please note your progress and completion of sessions will not be recorded and you will not be able to generate a record of completion. If you require evidence of learning, please register and then log in to access this programme on the elfh Hub.

If you already have an account with elfh, then you can enrol on to the All Our Health programme by logging in to the elfh Hub, selecting My Account > Enrolment and selecting the programme. You can then access the programme immediately in the My elearning section.

Register >

To view the All Our Health programme, select the View button below. If you already have an account with elfh, you will also be able to login and enrol on the programme from the View button.
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Registering large numbers of users

If you are a HR, IT or Practice Manager and would like to register and enrol large numbers of staff within your organisation for access onto the All Our Healthprogramme, please contact elfh directly.

Organisations wishing to use their own LMS

For HR departments wanting to know more about gaining access to courses using an existing Learning Management System please contact elfh directly to express interest.

More information

Please select the following link for more information on how to use the elfh Hub.

This programme is in partnership with...

elfh is a NHS England programme in partnership with the NHS and professional bodies

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The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities' All Our Health framework is a call to action to all health and care professionals to embed prevention within their day-to-day work. Through educational materials, tools and resources, All Our Health helps professionals make an even greater impact in preventing illness, protecting health, promoting wellbeing and reducing health inequalities.

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8 findings to help you stay healthy as you age

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The 8 examples of recent research in this Collection offer insights and encouragement for members of the public trying to stay healthy as they age.

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Read below to discover 8 research findings addressing key risk factors for poor health in later life, and to help you stay healthy as you age.
Introduction

Too many people spend a large portion of their later life in poor health, much of which could have been prevented. And there are large inequalities across the country.

Risk factors have a strong influence on whether a person becomes ill, at what age, and the associated effect on quality of life. Key risk factors include smoking, being overweight, heavy drinking and physical inactivity, as well as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes. All of these factors increase the risk of one or more of the leading causes of death: heart disease, dementia, stroke, cancer and lung disease.

The good news is that we can address these risk factors. And the NHS Health Check for people aged 40 to 74 can help identify your risks.

Addressing key risk factors for poor health - did you know?

Conclusion

The 8 examples of recent research in this Collection offer insights and encouragement for members of the public trying to stay healthy as they age.

It can be difficult to reduce risk factors. Many people find it challenging to do the recommended amount of exercise, and hard-earned weight loss is often followed by weight regain. Research in this Collection offers reassurance. Even small amounts of exercise protect your health, and the health benefits of losing weight remain even if weight is regained. People prescribed statins to reduce their cholesterol can also be reassured; these drugs do not commonly cause muscle pain and stiffness.

Different groups of people are at different risks for the same health condition. Research in this Collection shows how ethnicity influences someone's risk of diabetes. Also, that women could be at a greater risk of dementia if they carry weight around their middle. A more personalised approach to prevention could be built on evidence like this.

Collective action spanning public health, health and social care, economic and social conditions could extend life expectancy across the population. But the NHS Long-Term Plan recognises the need for tailored prevention for different individuals, alongside action across the whole of society. With the right support, people of all ages can better manage their physical and mental wellbeing. Addressing the risk factors that drive the burden of preventable ill health and early death is just one approach, but it could make a real difference. As evidenced here, adopting a healthy lifestyle in middle age could add 6-7 years to your life.

Author: Jemma Kwint, Senior Research Fellow, NIHR Evidence

How to cite this Collection: NIHR Evidence; 8 findings to help you stay healthy as you age; November 2023; doi: 10.3310/nihrevidence_60480

Disclaimer: This Collection is based on research which is funded or supported by the NIHR. It is not a substitute for professional healthcare advice. Please note that views expressed are those of the author(s) and reviewer(s) at the time of publication. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.

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8 findings to help you stay healthy as you age

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This Collection of research provides useful information for the public, especially those in mid-life, to help you stay healthy as you age

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The harm caused by tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food cost £31bn in productivity to our economy. This report calls for policies with a public health approach to address this issue, and highlight the importance of seeing expenditure in health as an investment.

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This report has been produced by the Institute of Health Equity and commissioned by the Health Foundation to mark 10 years on from the landmark study Fair Society, Healthy Lives (The Marmot Review).
The report highlights that:

people can expect to spend more of their lives in poor health

improvements to life expectancy have stalled, and declined for women in the most deprived 10% of areas

the health gap has grown between wealthy and deprived areas

place matters - living in a deprived area of the North East is worse for your health than living in a similarly deprived area in London, to the extent that life expectancy is nearly five years less.

The Health Foundation commissioned the Institute of Health Equity to examine progress in addressing health inequalities in England, 10 years on from the landmark study Fair Society, Healthy Lives (The Marmot Review).

Led by Professor Sir Michael Marmot, the review explores changes since 2010 in five policy objectives:

giving every child the best start in life

enabling all people to maximise their capabilities and have control over their lives

ensuring a healthy standard of living for all

creating fair employment and good work for all

creating and developing healthy and sustainable places and communities.

For each objective the report outlines areas of progress and decline since 2010 and proposes recommendations for future action, setting out a clear agenda at a national, regional and local level.

Find out more

To hear more about the Health Foundation's work, go to our preference centre where you can sign up to receive email updates on topics including the social determinants of health, inequalities and public health.

Cite this publication

Marmot M, Allen J, Boyce T, Goldblatt P, Morrison J. Health Equity in England: The Marmot Review 10 Years On. Institute of Health Equity; 2020 (health.org.uk/publications/reports/the-marmot-review-10-years-on).

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Health Equity in England: The Marmot Review 10 Years On

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This report by the Institute of Health Equity and commissioned by the Health Foundation explores widening health inequalities over the past decade and proposes recommendations for action.

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Making Every Contact Count (MECC): practical resources

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Government report on what helps us have a healthy life expectancy

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Understanding the drivers of healthy life expectancy: report

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Key points of the report are: healthy life expectancy (HLE) can be defined as 'a measure of the average number of years a person would expect to live in good health based on contemporary mortality rates and prevalence of self-reported good health' improving HLE remains a priority across government.

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All Our Health is a series of resources for health and care professionals working with patients and the population. Aimed at preventing illness, protecting health and promoting wellbeing.

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Explaining the All Our Health approach, why it is needed and how it involves all health and care professionals.

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