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- Detailed data on uptake and access of medicines and medical technologies at the level of each commissioning unit.
- What works in improving the skills, employability and wellbeing of young people?
- What are the impacts of lack of skills, employability and wellbeing among young people?
- Evidence on inequality of the impact of the diseases across different population groups.
- Evidence on the prevalence of long-term conditions associated with the disease areas covered by the healthcare missions (cancer, ageing, dementia, mental health, respiratory disease, obesity, addiction). Further, we would like to understand what links exist between these disease areas: whether there are mutual risk factors or whether any of these disease areas are a risk factor for another.
- The role that all parts of the health system, from community and primary care through to hospital-based and social care, play in delivering better outcomes for people, and how the system can work effectively together to plan for and respond to compound pressures including infections with pandemic potential.
- Evidence on inequality of access to and benefit from treatments.
- What is the impact of long COVID on transport accessibility?
- Osteoporosis is a major public health concern.
- Violence against women (VAW) is a vast public health problem in Latin America.
- Patient safety remains a critical issue in health care.
- Overweight is increasing in the adolescent population and became a public health problem in the world.
- Smoking cessation is a major public health issue.
- Stunting cases in infants in Indonesia continue to be a maternal and child health problem.
- The accumulating effects of human development are threatening water quality and availability.
- The increase in work-related health problems is a cause of concern for researchers worldwide.
- Good access to health facilities providing good first-level health care remains problematic in many developing countries.
- Increasing life expectancy and years of life without disease is one of the most important issues in health.
- Although public health physicians have shown interest in ethical dilemmas relating to specific problems within the specialty, few have addressed the central ethical dilemma in public health, namely the conflict between the rights of the individual and the responsibilities of society for all its members.
- Hearing loss is one of the biggest health problems in the world and occupational noise-induced hearing loss is recognized as the most common work-related illness.
- Unique challenges posed by complex public health emergencies have often called for institutions, responsible for restoring health, well-being, and order among affected populations, to realign their operating procedures and work in concordance with each other.
- In the United Republic of Tanzania, as in many regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, staff shortages in the healthcare system are a persistent problem, particularly in rural areas.
- How effective have whole school/college approaches to improving student mental health and wellbeing been? What factors underpin the most effective whole school/college approaches? How can schools/colleges effectively measure the impact of these approaches?
- Assess and provide evidence for effective interventions to reduce inactivity (undertaking under 30 minutes of exercise per week for the adult population, 16+), and increase physical activity (defined as +150 minutes per week for the adult population), considering underrepresented groups and demographics, as well as the cost benefit analysis.
- Estimates of the benefit and impact of introducing new technologies and therapeutics to the NHS.
- Evidence on whether reductions in excess adiposity improve patient outcomes and prevent the incidence of developing secondary disease or multiple long-term conditions.
- What works in improving youth outcomes?
- Detailed data on the price per QALY associated with each medicine and medical technology purchased by the NHS.
- How can education and care sectors best respond to environmental climate related risks or future pandemics to limit the impact on education?
- Reliable estimates of the relative productivity of the different factors in the health production function for the NHS.
- Evidence on the burden of disease associated with each of these disease areas, including both mortality data and quality of life adjustments.
- What are the specific health impacts of transport related particulate matter such as that caused by tyre and brake wear? Do different types of particulate pose different risks?
- How can we quantify wider health benefits from active travel beyond what’s already quantified in DfT’s Active Mode Appraisal Toolkit -including morbidity benefits, health benefits to children and cost savings to the NHS.
- How can policing best assess and evidence the benefits of crime prevention initiatives?
- What methods and expertise can policing utilise from evaluation programmes in education and health?
- Analyse the value of AHT sector work on public health.
- Detailed data on the dates of regulatory approval and cost-effectiveness appraisal of medicines and medical technologies.