Public Health

Should we be worried about the current COVID-19 variants? – UK Health Security Agency
			
As we enter autumn, rates of respiratory illnesses start to rise and people ask how the most common current  lineages  -  or groups of...

Your guide to who’s eligible for the autumn 2025 flu vaccine – UK Health Security Agency
			
As we approach autumn, it's nearly time for people with certain long-term health conditions to be booked in for their free flu jab. Individuals...
How we protect the UK from vector-borne diseases like dengue and...
			
Vector-borne diseases - illnesses transmitted to humans by organisms such as mosquitoes and ticks - account for more than 17% of all infectious diseases...
Proposed Legislation to Boycott Opioid Manufacturers Would Undermine the Public Health...
Over the past year, several bills that would impose novel restrictions on the purchasing of naloxone and other opioid antagonists (medications that reverse opioid...
Racial Equity Impact Assessments: A Valuable, Yet Underutilized, Tool to Address...
Structural racism and other forms of discrimination are deeply embedded in laws, policies, and government actions. However, law can also be used to confront...
How factors like your location, job or ethnicity can damage your...
			
Health inequalities are avoidable differences in health across our populations. You can suffer health inequalities because of where you were born or live, your...







