The Director of Public Health (DPH) has a statutory duty to publish an Annual Public Health Report that details the state of health within the local population.
The 2018 Annual Public Health Report outlined a joined up approach to health and wellbeing across the public, voluntary, community and private sector to promote health and wellbeing and prevent ill health across West Sussex.
Key messages from the report:
- Public health is everyone’s business
- Health is not just about health and social care services. To improve health we need to work together on the wider, social determinants of health
- Health and wellbeing benefits need to be felt by all – West Sussex has considerable health inequalities
- To tackle complex problems, such as obesity, we need to work at different levels; working with individuals, families, friends; the wider community and at a population level.
- Population-level approaches are likely to be the most cost-effective, but require sustained commitment as benefits are often delivered over a longer time period
- Placing Health at the heart of all our business will deliver many additional ‘co-benefits’.
Downloads
Annual Public Health Report 2018 (PDF, 2.17Mb)
Additional Resources
Annual Public Health Report 2018, presentation slides (Microsoft Powerpoint, 15Mb)