Public health in a cold climate: Melting hearts and minds with evidence

On the 14th-15th June 2016, Cochrane UK will be attending the FPH Annual Conference and Public Health Exhibition.  This annual conference, in partnership with the Royal College of Nursing, will discuss how evidence can be used to help deliver best practice. We have put together this content package to present Cochrane evidence relevant to the conference's themes.

See our conference topic collection here

This year is also the first year that the conference will be open to the general public and Cochrane UK will be there to discuss the latest Cohrane evidence and importance of evidence in decision making.

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Child Health

School-based brief interventions for substance-using adolescents - bit.ly/1V8OBZk

School policies for preventing smoking among young people

Brief educational strategies for improving contraception use in young people 

Social norms information for alcohol misuse in university and college students 

Universal school based prevention for illicit drug use 

Mental Health and Wellbeing

Advocacy interventions to reduce or eliminate violence and promote the physical and psychosocial well-being of women who experience intimate partner abuse 

Psychosocial interventions for self harm in adults - bit.ly/1NsL8X2

Preventing occupational stress in healthcare workers - bit.ly/1SwDxqf 

Interventions for primary prevention of suicide in university and other post-secondary educational settings 

Psychosocial and psychological interventions for prevention of postpartum depression 

Community Health

Community wide interventions for increasing physical activity 

Portion, package or tableware size for changing selection and consumption of food, alcohol and tobacco Portion size and healthy eating - bit.ly/1LjGpPW  

Housing improvements for health and associated socio-economic outcomes 

Reducing sitting at work - bit.ly/1UikZfc 

E-cigarettes for quitting smoking - bit.ly/1L93jw0

Health Protection (Antimicrobial Stewardship)

Biomarkers as point-of-care tests to guide antibiotic use for acute respiratory infections - bit.ly/1SwsoTI

Antibiotics for recurrent sore throat - bit.ly/1PLJ22y 

Antibiotics for people with sore throats - bit.ly/1MjFDFO 

Shared decision making & antibiotic use for acute respiratory infections in primary care - bit.ly/1PDMV9B

Handwashing to prevent diarrhoea - bit.ly/1iwA64w 

Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients