Public health intervention guidance

Public health intervention guidance makes recommendations on types of activity (interventions) that help to reduce people's risk of developing a disease or condition or help to promote or maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Examples of interventions would be:

• giving advice (for example, in GP practices to encourage exercise)
• providing services (for example, a needle exchange scheme for injecting drug users)
• providing support (for example, for new mothers to enable the uptake and continuation of breastfeeding)