A practical advice for older adults on healthy ageing, including staying active, eating well, supporting mental wellbeing, preventing falls, keeping your home safe, understanding dementia, accessing help to live well and independently for longer.

This report provides is an interim update on the epidemiology of gastrointestinal infections in Northern Ireland. 

These standards will apply to all organisations providing mental and emotional wellbeing and suicide prevention services which are funded by the PHA.

This Infant Mental Health Framework represents a commitment by the Public Health Agency, Health and Social Care Board and Trusts, as well as academic, research, voluntary and community organisations across Northern Ireland, to improve interventions from the ante-natal period through to children aged three years old.

This leaflet incorporates the current advice on low risk drinking from the four UK Chief Medical Officers.

Read the latest issue of the PHA Update May 2026. 

The PHA Update serves as a regular communication channel, sharing news, progress reports, upcoming campaigns and initiatives, and developments across public health.

The Self-Harm Registry collects data from hospital Emergency Departments across Northern Ireland in relation to attendances due to self-harm and/or thoughts of self-harm/suicide.  The report includes data for the years 2022/23 and 2023/24.

This booklet shows how parents and carers of primary school children can choose food from the different food groups to make sure their family is getting all the nutrients they need to stay healthy.

This booklet explains about the routine immunisations that are offered to all young people before they leave school.

This leaflet describes the vaccines given to babies up to a year old and includes the complete routine childhood immunisation schedule from January 2026. 

This booklet contains the facts about the vaccines given to children at the age of 3 years and 4 months. 

This leaflet is for parents of children due their vaccines aged 18 months and includes information on the complete childhod immunisation schedule from January 2026.

This booklet provides the facts about the vaccines babies will receive just after their first birthday and includes the complete childhood immunisation schedule from January 2026.

This leaflet provides information on immunisation arrangements for premature babies and has the complete childhood immunisation schedule from January 2026.

This report provides an overview of performance of the antenatal screening programme in Northern Ireland 2018-2020.