Public Health
About Public Health
The role of Public Health Isle of Man is to protect and improve the health and wellbeing of residents and to reduce health inequalities. This is achieved through strong partnerships with individuals, communities and key public, private and voluntary organisations.
Our Vision
The vision for Public Health is to work together to make the Isle of Man a place where our community can achieve optimum health and wellbeing with fewer inequalities.
Public Health aims to do this by:
Keeping people safe from infectious disease and environmental hazards
Focussing on life-long health and wellbeing, including prevention and early identification of modifiable risk factors
Understanding inequalities in health and reducing avoidable variations in health outcomes
Supporting a strong, sustainable economy enabling communities and environments where people live long and productive live
Read about our Operational Priorities for 2023/2024.
The Public Health Functions include:
Health Intelligence: Gathering and analysis of data to assess health and health needs of the local population, ensuring data is accessible to all decision makers and continuously improving the quality of the data collected.
Health Protection: Has overall responsibility for the management of incidents and outbreaks of infectious diseases. Leads Public Health response during incidents in line with the Emergency Planning Resilience and Response (EPRR) arrangements as part of the Isle of Man Emergency Response Plan. Strategically develops and maintain effective systems for the surveillance of communicable disease and environmental hazards and uses outputs to inform and influence local and national Public Health actions, policies and strategies. Responsible (with DHSC) for strategic commissioning of vaccination and immunisation programmes and population screening programmes.
Health Improvement: Strategic assessment of the population's health and wellbeing to identify where new policies, strategies and initiatives are needed to improve health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities.
Health Care Public Health: Working with partners across Manx Care and DHSC to assess clinical efficiency, examine commissioning and develop services to improve the overall healthcare experience for residents.
Research Governance and Regulation: Providing advice and guidance on the application process for research projects on the Isle of Man. This includes reviewing and updating legislation to ensure that research governance is within a statutory framework, developing local policies to support appropriate engagement with commercial entities, and maintaining the Isle of Man Research Ethics Committee.
Public Health Directorate
Cabinet Office
Cronk Coar
Noble’s Hospital
Strang
Douglas
Isle of Man
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Reviewed: 30 May 2022
