Health Promotion
The health promotion website for County Durham and Darlington provides information on healthy living, health improvement and health development programmes, and information about services and partnership work that aim to improve the health of the population.
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Get high quality evidence and national guidance from HPAC
HPAC enables you to search for high quality evidence and national guidance and provides in most cases direct links to the original documents.
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Narrowing the Gap in County Durham and Darlington - Public Health Toolkits 2008
This section contains toolkits for local areas that are designed to provide a snapshot of health and assist organisations that are working to tackle health inequalities.
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Health Profiles 2008
The Health Profiles for 2008 are produced by the Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO) and provide a snapshot of health in each local council area.
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Beyond Getting the Message Across
This is a toolkit for developing health information leaflets and posters. It embeds health literacy and social marketing principles in the process of developing health information publications and provides examples where new media may be more effective at reaching the intended audience. Includes guidance on using photographs and images (non clinical) and photo consent forms.
Where to find help to quit smoking
If you would like help and support to quit smoking you can search for one to one, group and drop-in quit smoking sessions being held in community centres, libraries, pharmacies, GP surgeries, health clinics and many other places across County Durham and Darlington.
Confidential sexual health advice and contraception
The places listed in this section can give you free, confidential sexual health advice, free condoms and emergency contraception (the morning after pill). The section also lists places where young people can sign up for and use a C-Card to get free condoms. ALL CLINICS will be CLOSED on statutory Bank Holidays Thursday 25 December, Friday 26 December 2008 and Thursday 1 January 2009
Confidential sexual health advice direct to your mobile phone
Completely confidential mobile textback services are available for young people. You can ask a sexual health question and get an answer quickly and confidentially,
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