NHF reports
The National Heart Forum produces a number of reports that address a variety of topics concerned with the prevention of coronary heart disease.
These reports are variously available from either The Stationery Office, the Faculty of Public Health, the Department of Health, Freestyle Business Services (01923 269902), direct from the NHF office or as a download on this website.
A list of our publications can be downloaded here.
See detailed information of our most recent publications below.
For all other publications, please see NHF reports archive
Meeting summary note: December 2008: Vitamin D and Chronic Disease
This document is a summary note of the National Heart Forum's members meeting,
Vitamin D and Chronic Disease, which was held in London on the 12 December 2008.
This meeting was held to discuss key issues surrounding emerging evidence about the role of vitamin D deficiency in the development of chronic diseases, and the implications for public health policy.
Report: October 2008: Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: A toolkit for developing local strategies
Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives toolkit: A Toolkit for Developing Local Strategies is a new report available to all Primary Care Trusts and Local Authorities to help them tackle obesity in their areas and help their citizens live healthier lives. It supersedes
Lightening the Load: Tackling overweight and obesity. A toolkit for developing local strategies to tackle overweight and obesity in children and adults.
Report: September 2008: The European Union and Health Impact Assessments: Are they an unrecognised statutory obligation?
This paper looks at the use of health impact assessment (HIA) at the European Union, and whether HIA should be considered mandatory in the same way as Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA).
Report: July 2007: Building Health: Creating and enhancing places for healthy, active lives: What needs to be done?
Building Health: Creating and enhancing places for healthy, active lives: What needs to be done? is a collection of papers by leading experts and campaigners which examine how the design of towns, cities and buildings might encourage physical activity. Building Health covers issues ranging from strategic and urban planning, to walking and cycling, to urban green space and building design. This project was done in partnership with
Living Streets and
CABE.
Lightening the load: Tackling overweight and obesity - updated March 2007
Lightening the load: Tackling overweight and obesity has been designed to provide a starting point for developing a local strategy to tackle overweight and obesity. It is intended to help local multiagency teams - including public health, health promotion and primary care professionals, and strategic planners in both the NHS and local government in England - to develop and implement strategies and action plans to halt the year-on-year rise of overweight and obesity through prevention and management.
Misconceptions and misinformation: The problems with Guideline Daily Amounts (GDAs) - February 2007
This report assesses the use of Guideline Daily Amounts (GDAs) on food and drink packages as a means of conveying nutritional information. It finds several areas of concern.
Nutrient-based standards for school foods - Summary
Nutrient-based standards for school food, is a summary of an in-depth report, Eating Well at School: Nutritional and Practical Guidelines which was published by The Caroline Walker Trust (CWT) and National Heart Forum (NHF) in September 2005.
Easing the pressure: Tackling hypertension toolkit
Easing the pressure: tackling hypertension is a toolkit for developing a local strategy to tackle hypertension. It is intended to help local multi-agency teams - including public health, health promotion and primary care professionals, and strategic planners in both NHS and local government - develop and implement strategies and action plans, not only to identify and treat patients with hypertension but also to promote healthier lifestyles and environments to prevent hypertension in the first place.
Nutrition and food poverty toolkit
This toolkit aims to help professionals tackle food poverty at local level. Nutrition + Food Poverty Toolkit brings together in one volume information essential to developing a local food poverty strategy.
Young@heart leaflets
Three summary leaflets, for Local Authorities, Local Education Authorities and Primary Care Trusts, were produced to facilitate the uptake of the recommendations made in the young@heart policy framework.
Young@Heart - A lifecourse approach to CHD prevention
Conceived by the National Heart Forum, this report brings together a series of specially commissioned reviews and previously unpublished data which for the first time document the trends in coronary heart disease risk factors and health inequalities among children and young people.
Fuel poverty and health toolkit
The aim of the
Fuel poverty and health toolkit is to improve the quality of life, to reduce morbidity and avoidable winter deaths, and to reduce winter strain on the NHS, by encouraging strategic planners and health professionals, in partnership with local authorities, to devise and implement well targeted local strategies to reduce fuel poverty.
Young@heart policy framework: Towards a generation free from CHD
The Young@heart policy framework was launched at the House of Lords on 14 February 2002. It is based on a draft document which was presented at the young at heart summit in June 2001, reflecting the contributions of NHF members, invited summit participants and others. It is a blueprint for national plans for children's and young people's health and well-being in the UK.
CHD: Estimating the impact of changes in risk factors
This report examines the epidemiological evidence for the main risk factors that affect coronary heart disease rates: cholesterol, physical activity, blood pressure, smoking and obesity and, for the first time, estimates the relative impact that changes to these risk factors may have on the number of cases and deaths from the disease in England.
Report: 2001: Let's get moving: A physical activity handbook for developing local programmes
This handbook is aimed at multi-agency partnerships and helps in the development of local policies, strategies and programmes to promote physical activity.