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Family Practice 2008 25(Supplement 1):i17-i19; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmn092
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This article appears in the following Family Practice issue: Creating Supportive Environments for Nutrition Guidance: Towards a Synergy Between Primary Care and Public Health. Proceedings of the Fifth Heelsum International Workshop 10-12 December 2007. [View the issue table of contents]

The public health view on closing the gap between public health and primary care

Susan Powella, Angela Towersb and Paul Milnec

a North West Teaching Public Health Network and the Academy of Health and Wellbeing, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester
b North West Food and Health Task Force
c Lancashire School of Health and Post Graduate Medicine, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

Correspondence to Susan Powell, Academy of Health and Wellbeing, Manchester Metropolitan University, T407, Elizabeth Gaskell Campus, Hathersage Road, Manchester, UK. Email: sue.powell{at}manchester.nhs.uk

Received 16 July 2008; Revised 24 October 2008; Accepted 31 October 2008.


  Abstract

This paper outlines the public health issues relating to the north-west region of England. The role of Primary Care Trusts in addressing the health and well-being issues is described and the development of Teaching Public Health Networks to support capacity and capability building in the public health workforce is outlined. Healthy weight management is used as a case study of how public health and primary care can be brought closer together by describing the role of the Food and Health Action Plan in addressing healthy weight management and its relationship with primary care.

Keywords. Food, nutrition, obesity, primary care, public health, teaching.

Powell S, Towers A and Milne P. The public health view on closing the gap between public health and primary care. Family Practice 2008; 25: i17–i19.


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