Dancing cheek to cheek: Public health and personalisation
Dancing cheek to cheek: A public health perspective on personalisation I don’t know if this is a common experience, but I’ve got involved in most of the best things in my life without really understanding what I was getting myself into. You’ll be pleased to know that I won’t be writing about most of them here, but to my surprise one of them has been getting involved in public health. I’ve been a researcher for many years working mainly with people with learning disabilities, which got me into working with In Control and many others on trying to track people’s experiences of personalisation in England. But the work on personalisation isn’t my day job, so to speak. Most of my working life is now spent working in a public health observatory concerned with people with learning disabilities (this is where I shamelessly plug Improving Health and Lives http://www.improvinghealthandlives.org.uk/ ). Recently, it seems to me that personalisation and public health have been like two teenagers at ...