Dental caries and obesity: their relationship in children

This evidence summary of dental caries and obesity: explores whether they are found in the same individuals and populations reviews and summarises what is currently known about their relationship using the published literature and routine public health monitoring data supports the dental public health and obesity teams, who may be asked about the relationship between these two outcomes

Making life better: Monitoring the wider social determinants of health and well being - key indicators 2015

This report monitors progress against the key indicators of Northern Ireland’s public health strategy ‘Making Life Better’ launched by the Department of Health, Social Services & Public Safety (DHSSPS) in 2014. In addition to presenting the revised baseline positions for each of the key indicators of the framework, the report also monitors progress against each indicator by comparing the latest position with the baseline.

NI health and social care inequalities monitoring system (HSCIMS) - health inequalities in Northern Ireland: key facts 2015

This key facts publication provides an interim update to the NI health & social care inequalities monitoring system (HSCIMS) regional reports which are published every other year. It presents a summary of the latest position and inequality gaps between the most deprived areas and both the least deprived areas and the NI average in addition to a regional comparison with rural areas for a range of health outcomes included within the HSCIMS series, in addition to the health survey Northern Ireland (HSNI).