Departments of Public Health

Departments of Public Health, Health Service Executive, Republic of Ireland.

About us - an overview of who we are and what we do.

Legislation - an overview of the Medical Officer of Health legislation

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

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Improving health: 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: Evaluating and improving the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare and implementing service development.

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.

Our Publications: Departments of Public Health publications on Lenus (The Irish Health Repository) - this collection continues to be updated.

Contact Details

• Departments of Public Health
• Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC)

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