The seventh Director of Public Health Annual Report, launched on 8 June 2016, focuses on demonstrating the economic worth of public health interventions. The report examines a number of interventions and programmes that are currently being funded by the Public Health Agency across each of the three public health domains - health improvement, service development/screening and health protection - and highlights their economic value in order to set out the case for a preventive public health approach.

The sixth Director of Public Health Annual Report, detailing the main public health challenges in Northern Ireland, is being launched this morning. It also provides information on the wide variety of work undertaken by the PHA and its partners during 2014 to improve the health and social wellbeing of the population.

Each year, the report focuses on an overarching area, which this year is ‘Adults aged 18–64 years’. There are also two supplementary documents of key data and core tables being launched alongside the report and which help to put into context many of the figures being reported.