Politics and profession in promoting and protecting health : who is doing what ? the second part of presentations on the role of public health professionals with politicians - but moving on to global health governance. We work together, or we fall apart.... 171003 middleton j zagreb

1. Politics and profession in
promoting and protecting
health : who is doing what ?
Professor John Middleton
President, UK Faculty of Public Health

2. UK Faculty of Public Health
Advocacy
Standards
Knowledge
Workforce
For public health specialist workforce
Student members,
Trainee members
Associate members
International members
New category for practitioner members
www.fph.org.uk

3. Health, hygiene
and councils …

4. Salus populi
suprema lex
esto
Cicero
Oxford Public Health Training conference

5. Where there is no vision
the people suffer
Andrija Stampar,
Yugoslavian Public health pioneer and WHO
founding father
After Proverbs/29-18.

6. William Beveridge designed
a welfare state for the UK in
the deepest point of the
Second World War.
‘We should regard want,
idleness , ignorance,
squalor and disease as
enemies of us all. That is
the meaning of a social
conscience; that we refuse
to make our separate
peace with evil.’

9. If the policy is wrong,
money will not make it
right; and if the policy is
right, money may not in
fact, present an unduly
difficult problem.
EF Schumacher, Small is
Beautiful, p 162

10. “ Medicine is a social science
and politics is nothing else
but medicine on a large scale.
“Medicine as a social science, as the
science of human beings, has the
obligation to point out problems and
to attempt their theoretical solution;
the politician, the practical
anthropologist, must find the means
for their actual solution”
Rudolf Virchow

11. it's not who
your doctor
is, it's who
you vote for,
that most
affects your
health

12. The role of politician in improving
and protect public health
Global governance for good health

13. Sustainable Development Goals

14. ‘Protecting resources
from one generation
to the next’
The Welsh
Wellbeing of
Future
Generations Act,
2015

15. Health through peace: a progressive
health movement
Health is global
‘You cannot have healthy people on a
sick planet’

18. Health through peace: a progressive
health movement
Health is interconnected- with
environment, economy,
education…..’security’

20. Inclusive growth or degrowth

21. A role for our climate
change special interest
group

22. Interconnectness
:
Climate change
refugees

23. Public health and the EU post Brexit
A country fit to live in… where
 Britain can power itself ? and
 House itself ? and
 Employ itself ?
http://www.campaigncc.org/sites/data/files/Docs/
one_million_climate_jobs_2014.pdf

24. Thinking globally,
acting locally:
Coventry and
Warwickshire
University
Hospitals Jubilee
Nature Reserve –
managing water
run off from
hospital car parks
- promoting
biodiversity, saving
money

25. Thinking globally, acting locally:
‘Saving lives with Solar’, Royal
North Midlands Hospitals, Stoke

26. The new Midland Metropolitan hospital
Opening 2018 – corporate citizenship offers of construction employment, low carbon
footprint, local health service employment , key worker housing and relocation of
services to community

27. The role of politician in improving and protecting
the public’s health:
Setting healthy public policy
Measuring the health impact of all policies

29. 1001 critical days
Personal health and social
relationships education, PHSE in all
schools
2 hours physical activity per week
reinstated

30. Stop marketing of foods high in sugar, salt and fat,
before the 9pm watershed and tighten marketing
restrictions
Introduce 20% duty on sugar sweetened beverages
Tackle alcohol related harm by introducing a minimum
unit price for alcohol of at least 50p
Rapidly implement standardised tobacco packaging
20 Mph speed limits

31. A living wage
Reaffirm commitment to universal
health care system free at the point of
need funded through general taxation

32. Invest in active transport to promote good
health and reduce our impact on climate change
Implement a cross national approach to meet
climate change targets, including a rapid move to
a 100% renewables and a zero carbon energy
system

33. http://www.bmj
.com/content/3
57/bmj.j2676

34. These 10 Corporations Control Almost Everything We Buy
Industrial Corporations prioritise PROFIT, not public health

35. Burden of disease attributable to 20 leading risk factors in 2010
expressed as a percentage of global disability-adjusted life-years
Global Burden of Disease Group. www.thelancet.com 2012 380 2245
Diet ≈ 40%

36. President gets cross on Childhood
obesity strategy- August 2016

37. The role of politician in improving and protecting
the public’s health:
Do the right thing

38. Preparedness and
safeguarding - key functions
of public health

41. Thank you
Professor John Middleton
President@fph.org.uk

42. • Middleton J, ISIS, crop failure and no anti-biotics: what training will we
need for future public health? European J Public Health 2016;
https://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/5/735
• Middleton J, Weiss M. Still holding on: public health in the UK after
Brexit. Euroheathnet journal 2016; 22:no 4: 33-35. (ISSN 1356–1030)
http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/325945/Euroh
ealth-V22-N4-2016.pdf?ua=1
• Middleton J. Public health in England in 2016—the health of the public
and the public health system: a review Br Med Bull (2017) 1-16. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1093/bmb/ldw054 and
http://academic.oup.com//bmb/article/doi/10.1093/bmb/ldw054/2871
226/Public-health-in-England-in-2016the-health-of-
the?guestAccessKey=8f7a33a1-bdbf-4db4-948c-fd6b6293a259
• Middleton J, Saunders P. 20 years of local ecological public health: the
experience of Sandwell in the English West Midlands
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033350615003303