Literature review

• Oral health of 5-yr-old children in Wales in 2024 to 2025

  This is a summary of the NHS Wales Dental Epidemiological Programme’s inspection of school year one (5-year-old) children undertaken across Wales in 2024-25.

• Clinical interventions to reduce health inequalities within primary care: An agile scope of the literature

  This report outlines the findings of a search conducted by the Public Health Wales Evidence Service to identify evidence on primary, secondary and tertiary prevention interventions aimed at reducing health […]

• Gender-based harassment in public spaces: A review of the literature

  The aim of this review is to consolidate and enhance the evidence base on the prevention of, and response to, public sexual harassment and other forms of gender-based harassment in […]

• Opportunities for improving childrens health in Wales. The potential of school food.

  The aim of this resource is to lay the foundation to facilitate a shared understanding across the system of the role school food plays in child health and well-being, and […]

• Terms for social prescribing in Wales

  Developed in collaboration with Wales School for Social Prescribing Research and the University of South Wales. The glossary aims to provide clarity on terminology.

• Everybody’s business: Early intervention crime reduction

  This report aims to aid understanding of how multi-agency partners, including police and justice, health and social care, local government, education, and the third sector, can work together to prevent […]

• Children and the cost of living crisis in Wales

  This report summarises findings from a literature review of the impact of the cost of living crisis on children’s health and well-being. We drew on the findings to make recommendations […]

• Thematic review of deaths of children and young people through probable suicide 2013 to 2017 – Summary

  Deaths of children and young people through probable suicide 2013 to 2017, a summary.

• Water-related fatalities in children and young people under 25 years of age, Wales, 2013 to 2022

  This report is to help inform the work of water safety professionals in Wales to prevent future deaths of children and young people from water-related fatalities

• Exploring the relationships and pathways linking education to health, well-being and equity

  Education is a building block to health and well-being throughout the life course and along with the other UK nations, Wales’ educational attainment gap, in terms of grades achieved at […]