PUBLIC HEALTH

Welcome to the DHSS Public Health Directorate Webpages

The Public Health Directorate is part of the Chief Executive's Office of the Department of Health and Social Security.

The Directorate can normally be contacted Monday to Friday between the hours of 9.00 am - 5.30 pm.

The offices are located in Douglas and address details are as follows:

For Public Health matters outside normal working hours, please contact Nobles switchboard 650000 who will provide you with the telephone number of the Consultant on Call.

Key Public Health Activities

The Directorate defines three overlapping domains in which public health professionals practice:

• Health improvement
• Improving services
• Health protection

Health Improvement

• Inequalities
• Healthy Schools
• Housing and Health
• Family/community
• Lifestyles including Obesity, Tobacco and Oral Health
• Surveillance and monitoring of specific diseases and risk factors

Improving services

• Clinical effectiveness
• Efficiency
• Service planning
• Audit and evaluation
• Clinical governance
• Equity

Health Protection

• Infectious diseases
• Chemicals and poisons
• Radiation
• Emergency response
• Environmental health hazards

Downloadable Documents
Annual Report 2004 (3770 kb) Format:Acrobat PDF File Annual Report 2004
The Health and Lifestyle Study in Children 2005 (232 kb) Format:Acrobat PDF File 10/11 year olds 2005 survey - Executive Summary
The Health and Lifestyle Study in Children 2003 (224 kb) Format:Acrobat PDF File Health-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of Manx children: HLSC 2003 - Executive Summary
The Health and Lifestyle Study in Children 2003 (136 kb) Format:Acrobat PDF File 10/11 year olds 2003 survey - Executive Summary
Annual Report 2003-2004 (509 kb) Format:Acrobat PDF File Drugs and Alcohol Strategy - 5th Annual Report 2003-2004
Drug and Alcohol Strategy 2005 onwards (631 kb) Format:Acrobat PDF File Updated Drug and Alcohol Strategy - Isle of Man - 2005 onwards
General Population Health and Lifestyle Survey (543 kb) Format:Acrobat PDF File General Population Health and Lifestyle Survey

You will need Adobe Acrobat to download documents that are PDFs, this is available free by following this link:

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