Currently, England’s rates of premature death are worse than those in many other European countries for big killers like cancer, heart and liver disease. There are also significant inequalities between different communities and groups within England for both overall life expectancy as well as the quality of health people can expect to enjoy towards the end of their life
Prevention is about promoting good health and discouraging decisions and behaviours that put health at risk, but where people do develop a condition, diagnosing this early and managing it in the community so that it does not deteriorate. Working alongside Public Health England’s long established programmes such as smoking cessation and health screening which address the public health aspects of prevention, the initial focus of our work will be early diagnosis and effective management of conditions once they are diagnosed. The Prevention programme will work across all our networks.
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