Smoking and tobacco
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RCPCH responds to RSPH's 'Health on the High Street' report
2 November 2018
The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) has published a league table ranking 70 of Britain's major towns and cities by the impact of their high streets on the public's health and wellbeing. Officer for Health Promotion, Dr Max Davie, responds to these statistics.
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RCPCH responds to CRUK obesity campaign launch
24 September 2018
A new report launched today by Cancer Research UK reveals that obesity is set to overtake smoking as the biggest preventable cause of cancer among UK women in 25 years' time. RCPCH responds.
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'A dismal, unfair and unsafe situation': RCPCH responds to National Children’s Bureau Report
11 July 2018
Dr Alison Steele responds to the National Children’s Bureau (NCB) new report, published today on behalf of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Children: Storing Up Trouble – A postcode lottery of children’s social care.
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RCPCH responds to Smoking in Pregnancy report
2 July 2018
The Smoking in Pregnancy Challenge Group, a coalition of health and maternity organisations, calls for bold Government action, amid concerns that new Government data will reveal that there has been no change in rates of smoking among pregnant women for over a year.
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Hospital grounds, school grounds and playgrounds to be smoke-free in Wales
25 May 2018
The RCPCH responds to the announcement that the Welsh Government will ban smoking from school grounds, playgrounds and hospital grounds as part of the Public Health (Wales) Act.
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RCPCH responds to new child mortality study
3 May 2018
English under 5's are one and half times more likely to die than those living in Sweden. RCPCH responds to new paper published in Lancet.
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A policy response for Northern Ireland to the State of Child Health report 2017
On 15 June 2017 the RCPCH launched the Northern Ireland Policy Response and Recommendations to the UK-wide State of Child Health report. The ground breaking State of Child Health report draws together a range of data across 25 key indicators of child physical and mental health creating a snapshot of...
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Children and young people in secure settings
Around 10,000 children and young people a year in the UK come into contact with secure settings. They are some of the most vulnerable, often suffering poor physical and mental health. These standards help healthcare professionals, commissioners, service providers, regulators, managers and governors ...
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State of Child Health 2017 - full report
Our report, available to download below, provides a comprehensive list of 25 measures of the health of UK children. These range from specific conditions such as asthma, diabetes and epilepsy, risk factors for poor health such as obesity and a low rate of breastfeeding, to child deaths. The data prov...
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Subject archives guide - Smoking
Our subject guides on a range of child health topics are for researchers interested in child health and the history of paediatrics. Smoking is one of the biggest causes of death and illness in the UK.