A recipe for action: using wider evidence for a healthier UK A collection of essays exploring why we need trans-disciplinary approaches to improve the public's health
June 2018
Key points
- A selection of essays written by individuals from a diverse range of industries and specialisms, reflecting on the case study of child obesity.
- Together they illustrate how different disciplines and professional practices conceptualise evidence and how they reason about moving from evidence to taking action.
- They also show that a broad range of disciplines and professional practices share similar goals.
It is increasingly recognised that addressing the current challenges facing people’s long-term health outcomes in the UK isn’t simply a problem of research translation and access to existing evidence.
It is a more fundamental problem: the evidence relevant to population-level action for long-term population health benefit – and the support to produce such evidence – is limited.
Producing such evidence requires current public health challenges to be viewed as social, economic, political and cultural phenomena. It requires a wider set of disciplines to be deployed to both understand and address the challenges effectively.
A recipe for action: using wider evidence for a healthier UK, presents a selection of essays written by individuals from a diverse range of industries and specialisms, reflecting on the case study of child obesity.
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