Public Health is about helping people to stay healthy and avoid getting ill and work on a range of range of policy areas including:

• immunisation
• healthy eating
• tobacco and alcohol
• drugs recovery
• sexual health
• pregnancy
• children’s health

Public Health Warwickshire:

• monitors the health of Warwickshire residents
• identifies their health needs
• plans for health emergencies
• controls communicable diseases
• runs immunisation and vaccination programmes
• screens for early disease

Most importantly, Public Health Warwickshire is about preventing illness and promoting health to reduce the need for hospital or long term health care.

Visit publichealth.warwickshire.gov.uk/ to find out more.