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an overview of who we are and what we do.
Legislation
- an overview of the Medical Officer of Health legislation.
Contact us
- contact details for each of the Public Health Areas.
Protecting Health:
An overview
: Some of the ways in which we intervene to protect the public from exposure to health-damaging hazards.
Infectious Diseases:
Including - notifying, investigating & preventing infectious diseases.
Environment & Health:
Including - water quality; air quality; risks from biological, chemical and radio-nuclear hazards.
Extreme weather events:
Information and advice about flooding, cold weather and heatwaves.
Improving health
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Gathering the evidence on how the health of the public can be improved, and working towards making better health available to all.
Developing health services
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Evaluating and improving the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare and implementing service development. This
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is available to assist planning of interventions, particularly those that wish to target disadvantaged and marginalised groups.
Research
: Finding what we can do to keep healthy, and what is most likely to help us get back to health when we are ill.
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: Departments of Public Health publications on Lenus (The Irish Health Repository) - this collection continues to be updated.
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