The Public Health Agency (PHA) is using National Breastfeeding Awareness Week (NBAW) to highlight the message that breastfeeding can make a real difference to the health of both mothers and babies. Also, that more mothers here are going home from hospital breastfeeding - with an increase from 40% in 2005 to 44% in 2008.1

Format: 8 page A5 leaflet Target group: Prospective participants in the Northern Ireland Bowel Screening Programme. Description: This leaflet provides information on bowel cancer and the Northern Ireland Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.

The PHA welcomes Sport NI's Active People: Healthy Communities publication, which highlightes the important relationship of community physical activity and public health.