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Good health for everybody
Health Inequalities Plan
The Public Health Improvement Team is in the process of putting together a Health Inequalities Plan for the city, including contributions from senior staff across the Council and NHS Sheffield. Sheffield is the first city to develop a Health Inequalities Plan based on the preliminary findings of the Marmot Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England.
Food Plan
Food has a massive impact on many parts of our lives. If people’s diets in the UK followed nutritional guidelines, 70,000 deaths could be avoided a year. Around 18% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions are due to food production and consumption and the UK’s food and drink economy employs 3.7 million people.
The Public Health Improvement Team, supported by Sheffield-Let's Change4Life, is currently developing a Sheffield Food Plan.
World AIDS Day in Sheffield
Over 200 people turned up to a candlelit vigil to mark World AIDS Day on 1 December 2009 hosted by The Chair of Sheffield First Partnership/Leader of the Council, Cllr Paul Scriven.
The vigil raised over £300 for local HIV support charity the Sheena Amos Youth Trust. Joy Beardsley, Trust Coordinator at the charity said: “We are thrilled that the Council has decided to support the Sheena Amos Youth Trust with this event. Our work with young people affected by HIV is vitally important because there is still such a taboo around HIV, which can be very isolating. Our group gives young people across South Yorkshire a safe place to get valuable support and share their feelings with other people their own age, who understand the issues they may be facing.”
There are currently over 650 people in Sheffield receiving care for HIV, double the number six years ago. This is the sexually transmitted infection (STI) showing the fastest increase in the city. NHS Sheffield’s Deputy Director of Public Health Paul Redgrave said: “Because of the effectiveness of current HIV treatments, the life expectancy of someone with HIV is now almost normal. However, too many people are being diagnosed late, and treatment is less effective in this case….”