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You'll like to bike

This poster promotes cycling as a form of health-enhancing physical activity.

Try walking instead

This poster encourages people to get more physically active by taking the stairs instead of waiting for the lift.

Go for a hearty walk

This poster encourages people to become more active by highlighting the value of walking in reducing the risk of heart disease.

Why weight?

This poster encourages people to become more physically active by promoting walking as a means of losing weight.

30 minutes of physical activity a day is good for your health

This poster promotes the message that 30 minutes of moderate physical activity a day has substantial health benefits, and highlights the fact that you don’t have to do 30 minutes all in one go.

Breastfeeding - part of everyday life

This poster highlights how discreet breastfeeding can be part of everyday life.

The Public Health Agency (PHA) can confirm that a child with confirmed flu infection, who attended a school for children with special needs, has sadly passed away. The PHA would like to extend its deepest sympathy to the family of this child. This death is a reminder that flu infection can cause serious complications, and indeed death, in those with certain underlying medical conditions.

Transmit: Health protection service bulletin. 2010: Issue 4

The fourth edition of Transmit features an update on the blood-borne viruses and sexually transmitted infections team, and gives an overview of infection rates and risk management in relation to hepatitis C and hepatitis B. For hepatitis C, links are provided for the quick reference guide for primary care and for the Northern Ireland Hepatitis C Managed Clinical Network. A list of target groups for hepatitis B immunisation is included.

In Northern Ireland more than one in 10 cancers diagnosed are lung cancer, warns PHA

Read more about In Northern Ireland more than one in 10 cancers diagnosed are lung cancer, warns PHA

Lung cancer is the most common cancer in the world claiming more than 33,500 lives every year in the UK and in 2008 accounted for 12.5% of all cancers diagnosed in Northern Ireland.¹

PHA confirms influenza case in special school pupil

Read more about PHA confirms influenza case in special school pupil

The Public Health Agency (PHA) has confirmed that a case of influenza has been reported in a pupil attending Ceara School, Lurgan. The Ceara School is a special school for children with severe learning disability. Information letters have been issued to parents of other children at the school highlighting the importance of flu vaccination and encouraging them to get their children vaccinated. Local GPs have also been informed. No other associated cases have been identified.