Imperial College London Primary Care

Health systems across the world are facing unprecedented pressures. Populations are ageing, the prevalence of long-term conditions continues to rise, healthcare workforces are under increasing strain, and the costs of treating preventable illness continue to escalate. Despite decades of evidence demonstrating that many chronic diseases are preventable, healthcare systems remain largely organised around treating illness rather than preventing it. This imbalance is no longer sustainable.   At the Self-Care Academic Research Unit (SCARU) , together with the International Self-Care Foundation (ISF) and the Self-Care Forum (SCF) , we believe the next evolution of healthcare must place prevention where it belongs: at the centre of health systems. That belief has led to the development of the Declaration on Self-Care and Lifestyle Medicine , a consensus framework that sets out how health systems can better integrate prevention, behavioural healthcare and person-ce...

Leveraging Community Assets to Tackle Social Isolation and Loneliness: A Needs Assessment of the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Executive Summary Dissertation by: Mr Hao Yang Pang, Master of Public Health (MPH) Co-Supervisors: Drs Marize Bakhet & Shamini Gnani Supervisor & Principal Investigator: Dr Austen El-Osta (ICREC #19IC5385) This study is an investigation of factors that influence the routine adoption & diffusion of evidence-based asset-based community development (ABCD) initiatives to tackle social isolation & loneliness (using LBH&F as a case study)  INTRODUCTION ·        Social isolation may affect people of all ages, but it does not equate to loneliness and vice versa. Although acknowledged to be different concepts, social isolation and loneliness (SI&L) are often considered together. ·        SI&L is a r...