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| Archive February 2008
Annual Public Health Reports were designed to inform each health authority about the health of the population for which they are responsible and to be an integral component of the health planning and contracting cycle. The Department of Public Health Medicine at the Eastern Health and Social Services Board has moved a step beyond this concept to provide an online resource of health information, data and statistics. It aims to act as a reference point for key stakeholders on public health in the Eastern Board area. Public health, to put it simply, is concerned with protecting and improving the ‘health of the public’. Many factors determine our health status and this site includes information about the social, economic and environmental factors and lifestyle issues that influence health as well as about services that are provided to prevent illness and restore to health those who are ill. Throughout this site you will find health information on a range of topics, with a link to data and statistics for each relevant section. Click on the “Health information” link on the home page to enter this section of the site. The menus will then guide you to a range of subject areas.
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Eastern Health and Social Services Board Champion
House, |
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| “Stay
Cool in School”, a pilot programme in primary, post primary
and special schools across the area initiated by EHSSB
Oral Health Promotion Facilitators, promotes desk top access to
drinking water throughout the school day. |
| Smoking
in pregnancy increases the risk of: |
| In Northern
Ireland 3% of the population are known to have diabetes, a figure
which is expected to double in the next 8 years. Up to a further
25,000 people may have diabetes but have not yet been diagnosed. |