This category recognises excellence in programmes that increase public awareness of and sense of responsibility for maintaining or safeguarding public health and well-being, and drive the required behaviour change. These will typically include programmes for the ‘greater good’.
Public health refers to all organised measures (whether public or private) to prevent disease, promote health and prolong life among the population as a whole. Its activities aim to provide conditions in which people can minimise the risk of illness, can be healthy and focuses on entire populations. These populations can be as small as a local neighborhood, or as big as an entire country or region of the world, but not individual patients or specific groups of health consumers. Thus, public health is concerned with a holistic view of health and the total system,not only a specific disease.
Entries should bring about changes of perceptions and/or behaviour that will result in:
- Improvements in public health
- Benefits to delivery of care to patients or service users
- Raised awareness and adoption or maintenance of healthy lifestyles
- Prevention of the onset of disease
- Early detection and diagnosis of disease
- Reduced health inequalities and/or other societal goals relevant to health.
Please note that the judges will be looking for real evaluation focused on outcomes in the areas above as opposed to surrogate markers of programme success such as outputs, outtakes, OTS, coverage etc.
Entries are invited from any individual, team, company and service that has made an impact on public health. Judges will be looking for evidence of real patient outcomes, behavioural change and a sustained response.
Work conducted in the two-year period from July 2023 to June 2025 will be eligible.
