Population Health and Prevention Academy
Population health is an approach aimed at improving the health of an entire population. It is about improving the physical and mental health outcomes and wellbeing of people, whilst reducing health inequalities within and across a defined population. It includes action to reduce the occurrence of ill-health, including addressing wider determinants of health, and requires working with communities and partner agencies.
Why should we learn about population health?
It is essential for every healthcare organisation because population health principles have the potential to contribute significantly to improved health outcomes across the health and social care system.
COVID-19 has had a disproportionate impact on those already experiencing disadvantage, discrimination and health inequalities. The pandemic has highlighted the need for the NHS to increase the scale and pace of action to tackle health inequalities and protect those at greatest risk.
Taking a population health approach can help in the recovery from the pandemic and to improve patient access, experiences and the outcomes of those populations in most need.
Who needs to learn about population health?
This toolkit enables health and care organisations to embed population health approaches into their communities by improving the knowledge of their workforces in this area.
How can we learn about population health?
The Population Health Toolkit supports learners by providing links to free resources mapped to eleven core curriculum areas and learning objectives.
Learners may benefit from exploring the learning objectives to identify any gaps in their knowledge and visiting the relevant resources.
Helpful documents
Minimum requirements
Key values
Routes into health and care
Shape your future
Hull and East Yorkshire
York and North Yorkshire
Health Inequalities
•brief descriptor of HIs and the groups this would cover
•Links to HI training Health Inequalities – elearning for healthcare
•Links to HI events e.g. share and learn
•Links to HI case studies
Health Equity Fellowship
•Brief descriptor of the programme
•Link to webpage Health Equity Fellowship – Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership
•Testimony x 2 of previous participants
•Link to work produced from programme
Population Health and Prevention
•Brief descriptor of what is it/means
•Link to pop health training/intro Population Health Toolkit – elearning for healthcare
•More advanced if starting further along, link to the foundation programme Foundation Programme in Public Health
