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The health impacts of waste incineration: a systematic review

Waste incineration is increasingly used to reduce waste volume and produce electricity. This article offers some ideas for better policy and regulation surrounding this process.
Report

Bodies of evidence


Following the signing of the 2017 Evidence Declaration, this report examines the role of the royal colleges, faculties and other professional bodies in mobilising evidence. With a wealth of examples provided by the declaration signatories themselves, the report offers nine practical recommendations for getting research used in practice.
Discussion paper

National Dust Disease Taskforce: consultation paper


This consultation paper provides important background and context information to start the conversation with stakeholders about dust diseases, in particular, the emergence of new cases of accelerated silicosis.
Report

The ‘make do and mend’ health service: solving the NHS’ capital crisis


The NHS has had historically low levels of capital investment. Compared to similarly advanced economies, this country’s capital investment has been very low. On average, a person living in the UK has missed out on almost £2,000 since 1975 – the equivalent of over £100 billion overall.
Report

Creating healthy lives


The Health Foundation is working to bring about change through their Healthy Lives strategy. Building on previous work, this report makes the case for a whole-government approach to improve health in the United Kingdom, and identifies some of the steps required to achieve it.