WHY THIS MATTERS
Many of the leading causes of ill health in the UK are linked to modifiable lifestyle risk factors, including smoking, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet and alcohol harm.
Integrated Care Systems increasingly prioritise upstream prevention and early intervention as part of population health management to improve outcomes and reduce pressure on health and care services.
Lifestyle services support this whole-system prevention approach by helping individuals and families build sustainable healthy behaviours.
40%
of ill health in the UK is linked to modifiable lifestyle risk factors including smoking, diet, alcohol and inactivity.
64,000
deaths each year in the UK are linked to smoking, the largest preventable cause of death.
How Lifestyle Services Support Prevention
Reducing modifiable risk factors linked to long-term conditions
Supporting early intervention and behaviour change
Improving population health outcomes
Contributing to demand management across health services
A Long History Of Prevention
Prevention has been central to MoreLife’s approach since the organisation was founded at Leeds Beckett University in 1999.
Over the past two decades we have delivered programmes designed to support early intervention and sustainable behaviour change, including:
Family-based healthy lifestyle programmes
Residential healthy lifestyle camps for young people
Community-based weight management programmes
Smoking cessation services
Therapeutic behaviour change programmes