Pharmacy Health Champion Training

Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth

What is Public Health?

“The science and art of promoting and protecting health and wellbeing, preventing ill health and prolonging life through the organised efforts of society.”

Faculty of Public Health

The Wider Determinants of Health

Health Inequalities‘differences in health experience or outcome

between population groups’

• People living in the poorest areas will ,on average, die 7 years earlier

• Spend up to 17 more years living with poor health

• Higher rates of mental illness• Harm from alcohol, drugs and smoking• All 3 boroughs have health inequalities

Public Health- Key Priorities

Areas under target: immunisations (MMR) uptake: 83% (target 2012/13: 95%); breastfeeding: 73% (target:

76%)

High excess winter deaths in 2009/12- 363 in all ages; high injuries due to falls in 2011/12: 281 in those aged 65-79 years

old and preventable eye disease (glaucoma)- 25 in those aged 40+ in

2011/12

• Mental Health: high number of people affected (48,500)• Lack of physical activity (23%) and significant proportion overweight (50%)• Areas of inequality:

• Deprived communities: mortality rate from cancer is 29% higher in areas of highest socioeconomic deprivation; poor education- 7.1%16-18 year olds are not in education

• Long term unemployment: 9,311 in 2011

• Sexually transmitted infections high (5,655 diagnosed in 2012); alcohol related hospital admissions increased (4755 admitted in 2011/12)

Infants/ ChildrenAdults Elderly

Preventing people from dying early

• What are the major diseases?

• Around 80% of deaths from the major diseases are attributable to lifestyle risk factors

• What are the lifestyle factors?

Your role as health champions

• Every contact counts!

• Trusted frontline staff

Local services commissioned by Public Health

• Stop Smoking Service• LiveWell (Sutton and Merton)• Supervised consumption and needle exchange• Emergency hormonal contraception.• Chlamydia/gonorrhoea screening.• NHS Health Check.• Alcohol IBA (scratch cards).

Merton Health Guide.

• Will be used by champions across Merton.• Easy to read and quick to use.• Help champions to start the conversation.• Similar to the red book for children.• Simple way to deliver consistent messages.• Support behaviour change and signposting.

Any questions?

Barry Causer barry.causer@merton.gov.uk

Sue Tree sue.tree@sutton.gov.uk

David Tchilingirian david.tchilingirian@sutton.gov.uk

Anna Zielicka-Hardy azielicka-hardy@wandsworth.gov.uk