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The All Wales Sexual Health Network Annual Conference will take place at Cardiff City Stadium on Wednesday, 22 February.

Public Health Wales and Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board are urging parents in Gwynedd to get their children vaccinated with MMR following an increase of measles cases associated with Ysgol Eifionydd School, Porthmadog, Gwynedd.

Rugby fever hit Gladstone Primary School in the run up to the Six Nations tournament when a sporting celebrity visited the school.

Public Health Wales has been contracted by the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) to carryout development work on a proposed Hepatitis B (HBV) database for all of Europe. 

New research from Public Health Wales shows that training given by Mind Cymru’s Positive Choices project is making a real difference to people’s willingness to discuss and tackle suicide and self harm.

Public Health Wales and Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board are urging parents in Gwynedd to get their children vaccinated with the MMR vaccine following an increase of measles cases associated with Ysgol Eifionydd School, Porthmadog, Gwynedd.

 

Data collected by Google Analytics on how visitors interacted with the Public Health Wales website during the first month of 2012 are now available.

 

Sarah Hope, Principal Health Promotion Specialist with Powys Public Health Team, has returned from a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship in British Columbia, the healthiest province in Canada, full of ideas that can be translated to enhancing health on her home turf.

The North Wales Public Health Team of Public Health Wales is using Valentine’s Day as an opportunity to highlight the impact of rising alcohol consumption on sexual health.

Recent research by the Pharmaceutical Public Health Team reveals that within Wales community pharmacies are more likely to be located in areas of higher deprivation than areas of lower deprivation.

Public Health Wales is hosting the 2012 European Public Health Exchange meeting on 8-9 February 2012 at the Temple of Peace and Health, Cardiff.

The Health Promotion Library will move from the Welsh Government to Public Health Wales on 1 April 2012.

 

New web pages for the final report and recommendations of the National Prevention and Promotion Programme have been published.

 

Data collected by Google Analytics on how visitors interacted with the Public Health Wales website during December 2011 are now available.

 

Booking is now open for the ninth Welsh Immunisation Conference, organised by the Vaccine Preventable Disease Programme of Public Health Wales.

Delegates at the All Wales Mental Health Promotion Network annual conference will discuss the importance of early years development on mental health and wellbeing.

The Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit (WCISU) has published cancer incidence figures in Wales for the diagnosis period from 2006 to 2010. 

The Public Health Wales Observatory has published a profile on eye health equity in Cwm Taf.

 

A report for the Reproductive and Early Years Pathfinder has been published which highlights the progress made during phase one of the programme.

 

The British Journal of General Practice has published two articles written by members of the North Wales Public Health Team, Wrexham County Borough Council, the Universities of Cardiff, Bangor and Liverpool, and Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.

 

Cervical Screening Wales is joining forces with a leading Welsh cancer charity, in a bid to encourage women to attend for smear tests.

 

Following a recent increase in the number of cases viral gastroenteritis, Public Health Wales is issuing a reminder that people suffering from diarrhoea and vomiting or individuals from households with people suffering from these symptoms should not visit patients in hospital.

 

The call for papers is now open for this year’s Five Nations Health Protection Conference, which this year takes place in Ireland.

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