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Title: MHFA The RSPH Perspective


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MHFAThe RSPH Perspective
  • Robin Philipp
  • Consultant Occupational Public Health Physician

2
The RSPH 1 October 2008
  • RIPH (1886) - RSH (1876)
  • Public Health the science and art of protecting
    and improving the health of communities through
    education, promotion of healthy lifestyles, and
    research for disease and injury prevention
  • Independent multi-disciplinary, 7,000
    associates, licentiates, members fellows
  • Royal Charter, Patronage HM the Queen

3
Spectrum of Member Interests
  • Health protection
  • Environmental health
  • Health professions medicine, dentistry,
    nursing, PAMs
  • Dentistry
  • Food hygiene
  • Nutrition dietetics
  • Health promotion Well-being Practitioners, Arts
    Health
  • Health safety
  • Veterinary science
  • Engineering
  • Architecture
  • Health care management
  • Social care

4
The RSPH Approach
  • Vision, Voice, Practice
  • Advocacy, Mediation, Empowerment
  • Policy Development
  • Education Training Services
  • Scientific Research
  • Information Dissemination
  • Certification of Products, Training Centres
    Processes

5
RSPH Links
  • Government Depts
  • Public Sector Organisations
  • Other Charities
  • Media
  • Commercial Companies
  • Consumer Bodies
  • Partner University Network (policy, collaborative
    research bids dissertation support)

6
RSPH International Collaboration
  • American Public Health Association
  • European Public Health Association
  • World Federation of Public Health Agencies
  • World Health Organisation
  • International Union for Health Promotion
    Education
  • The Peoples University

7
RSPH Present Priorities
  • Child and Adolescent Health ( Social Justice)
  • Food Nutrition
  • Immunisation and Vaccination
  • Infection Control
  • Sexual Health
  • Sustainable Development including needs
    associated with Mental Health Emotional
    Well-being

8
RSPH-NIMHE-MHFA
  • Public Health 1D, 2D, 3D Prevention
  • WHO defn. Health is a state of complete
    physical, mental, psychological, social
    spiritual well-being not merely the absence of
    disease or infirmity

9
From Mental Illness to Well-being
  • Mental illness a diagnosable illness that
    significantly interferes with and individuals
    cognitive, emotional or social abilities, e.g.
    depression, anxiety, schizophrenia
    www.healthscotland.com
  • Mental well-being a broad term encompassing
    areas such as life satisfaction, optimism,
    self-esteem, mastery feeling in control, having
    a purpose in life, and a sense of belonging
    support www.healthscotland.com
  • Health Promotion The process of enabling people
    to increase control over thereby improve their
    health (Nuffield Trust 1999)

10
The Nuffield Nudge
  • Humanities in Medicine Beyond the Millennium
    (1999). Philipp, R., Baum, M., Mawson, A., Calman
    Sir K. Report Series No.10 164pp.
  • Arts, Health Well-Being (2002). Philipp, R.,
    Baum, M., Macnaughton, J., Calman Sir K. 114pp.
  • CAHHM, Medical Humanities, RCP books,
  • Cultural Medicine (DoH Arts Council)

11
A Nudge For The Literary Arts
  • Survivors Poetry in spite of not because
  • Lapidus
  • 1.26 millions Annual Prescribing Cost Savings
    SSRIs _at_ 2001 costings
  • News Media coverage

12
The Media Moved
  • GPs to be versed in therapy
  • Try the rhythm method
  • A poem a day keeps dejection at bay
  • Let iambics take the measure of your stress
  • Rhyme restores reason
  • Exam blues? An ode could ease your load
  • From bad to verse

13
The Italian Red Cross
  • Technology Communication for a New
    Humanitarian Intervention
  • Office of International Health Cooperation
    Development 2007 232pp.
  • www.choleracafe.com

14
MHFA Training Aims
  • Preserve life where a person may be a danger to
    themselves or others
  • Provide help to prevent the mental health problem
    developing into a more serious state
  • Promote recovery of good mental health
  • Provide comfort to a person suffering mental
    illness

15
Joined Up ThinkingMHFA Training, the RSPH 1D,
2D, 3D Prevention
  • Mental health lifestyle are linked
  • Self-esteem, personal confidence morale
    influence lifestyle are influenced by it
  • Epictetus 100 AD
  • Smoking, diet, weight nutrition, alcohol,
    drugs, exercise (NHS LifeCheck)
  • Health Emotional Literacy (20 UK - )

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Definitions of Well-Being
  • Ataraxia inner peace
  • Eudaimonia a feeling that reflects a
    combination of well-being, happiness,
    contentment, pleasure satisfaction of living
    the best life possible
  • RCP 2005 a holistic notion of achieving a
    state of health, comfort happiness

17
Who Is Doing What ?
  • The Nuffield Trust arts humanities
  • FPH Position Statements mental health smoking,
    with work
  • NICE evidence bases for public health
    interventions
  • RCGP RCPsych public information leaflets
  • Websites Livinglifetothefull Beatingtheblues
  • NHS Choices (NHS Direct) - LifeStyleCheck
  • BMA-AMA-CMA with RSPH, NIMHE, NHS Plus, NCAS
    Postgrad. Deaneries?

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The RSPH NIMHENeeds For Sustainable Development
  • Values a set of principles which are consistent
    inform direct our thought, action
    activities
  • Fiscal Capital accumulated wealth as used esp.
    in further production
  • Human Capital social, cultural,
    intellectual, emotional, creative,
    aesthetic, spiritual, moral
  • UK Creative Industries worth 60 billion / year
    (British Council)

19
RSPH Support For Human CapitalTraining Courses
  • Working together with national learning support
    networks designed to disseminate effective
    practice
  • Signposting professionals to toolkits materials
    developed by other organisations
  • Filling gaps with evidence-based practical tools
    to help public health practitioners

20
The RSPH Establishing Competencies, Benchmarking
Compliance
  • 7 levels of Generic Outcomes of Understanding
  • National Qualifications Framework (NQF)
  • National Qualifications Credits Framework
    (NQCF) new
  • Public Health National Occupational Standards of
    the Sector Skills Council
  • MHFA Instructors Course Level 3

21
The RSPH Portfolio of Qualifications
  • 40 qualifications
  • 100,000 students qualify each year
  • Accreditation by OfQual (the Govt. Regulator)

22
Other RSPH Stand Alone Awards of Relevance to
MHFAIs
  • Health Awareness Level 1
  • Understanding Health Improvement Level 2
  • Recognising Responding to Substance Misuse
    Level 2 under development
  • Certificate in Health Promotion Level 2

23
Relevance of these Awards to MHFAIs
  • First 3 all recognise competency to
  • Identify signs and / or symptoms
  • Assess the immediate risk what help is
    required
  • Ensure self-care

24
The Most Relevant Award
  • Understanding Health Improvement
  • UK Govt. White Paper Choosing Health Making
    Healthier Choices Easier
  • Identified need for the NHS Health Trainer
  • Role advise, motivate support individuals
  • 1st step towards becoming a fully qualified NHS
    Health Trainer

25
Understanding Health ImprovementAward
  • Accredited training for workplace Health
    Champions relevance for PCTs Health, Work
    Well-being Coordinators Lord Darzi, Dame Carol
    Black
  • Health promotion role within the workforce
  • Losing weight keeping it off
  • Eating more healthily
  • Quitting smoking
  • Drinking wisely
  • Managing the response to stress pressure

26
Interest in Understanding Health Improvement
  • Microsoft
  • British Dental Association
  • Airbus
  • Primary care Trusts
  • Royal Mail
  • British Army
  • Carphone warehouse
  • Marks Spencer
  • Cadbury Schweppes
  • Prison Service
  • Training Life Coaches Counsellors

27
The RSPH Approach Applying the WHO Healthy
Settings Model
  • WHO Health Promoting Hospitals
  • Healthy Schools
  • Prisons
  • Airports
  • WHO Healthy Cities
  • WHO Green Cities Blue Cities of Europe
  • UK Healthcare Commission PH Stds

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Professionalism
  • Ensuring ones own mental health, emotional
    resilience coping skills
  • Working together for standards
  • Improving what we do how we go about it
  • Towards a common aim the evidence base
  • The public health.
  • www.rsph.org.uk
  • www.artsaccessinternational.org
  • www.lapidus.org.uk

29
MHFA Evidence That It Works
  • RCT (Kitchener B.A., Jorm A.F. BMC Psychiatry
    2004 Vol.4 23).
  • Workplace 301 Public Servants
  • _____________________________
  • Improved knowledge
  • Less stigmatizing attitudes
  • Increased confidence in helping others
  • Increase in amount of actual help
  • Improved personal mental health

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Relevant RSPH Divisions
  • Development Heather Davison
  • Qualifications Wendy Moore
  • Accreditation - Anna Zilnyk (with HD)
  • MHFAIs Competency Clusters CPD Career
    development
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