{"id":10278,"date":"2022-07-08T14:12:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T14:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legalblog.ie\/hse-public-health\/"},"modified":"2024-02-26T19:22:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T19:22:41","slug":"hse-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/hse-public-health\/","title":{"rendered":"HSE Public Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_63 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/hse-public-health\/#Overview\" title=\"Overview\">Overview<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/hse-public-health\/#Environmental_Safety\" title=\"Environmental Safety\">Environmental Safety<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/hse-public-health\/#Health_Strategy\" title=\"Health Strategy\">Health Strategy<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/hse-public-health\/#Notifiable_Diseases\" title=\"Notifiable Diseases\">Notifiable Diseases<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/hse-public-health\/#Public_Health_Threats\" title=\"Public Health Threats\">Public Health Threats<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/hse-public-health\/#Health_Improvement\" title=\"Health Improvement\">Health Improvement<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Overview\"><\/span>Overview<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The Department of Public Health is part HSE. It is divided into eight divisions covering Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>It provides health protection services, advocates, contributes to health and participates in health service development.\u00a0 Each section of the department is led by the Director of Public Health, who is the regional Medical Officer of Health.<\/p>\n<p>The Medical Officer of Health is responsible for investigating notifiable diseases and outbreaks under the Health Acts and the Infectious Disease Regulations.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Environmental_Safety\"><\/span>Environmental Safety<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Health Protection Services cover programmes for the safety of air quality by working with the \u00a0Environmental Protection Agency, the Radiological Institute of Ireland, Met Eireann, Bord Gais and other institutions.\u00a0 It works with Environmental Health Officers and the Environmental Protection Agency in relation to water services and the quality of drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>Multidisciplinary groups in the departments include a range of specialists, including consultants in public health medicine, senior medical officers, specialist nurses, surveillance scientists, researchers, and project specialists.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Health_Strategy\"><\/span>Health Strategy<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The Department of Public Health implements Healthy Ireland, a framework for improved health and living published in 2013.\u00a0 Its actions include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>prevention of infections and endemics<\/li>\n<li>protection from biological, chemical and radio nuclear health risks<\/li>\n<li>response to incidents and disasters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It reaches out to link high-risk and hard-to-reach people with needed services.\u00a0 It conducts research into new innovative solutions.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Notifiable_Diseases\"><\/span>Notifiable Diseases<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>There are obligations requiring various parties, such as medical practitioners and others in the Health Services to notify medical officers of health of certain infectious diseases.\u00a0 The Medical Officer of Health investigates the diseases and seeks to control the risks associated with the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Notifiable infectious diseases are notified to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre.\u00a0Certain classes of diseases must be notified, including for example,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Disease Causative Pathogen<\/li>\n<li>Acute anterior poliomyelitis Polio virus<\/li>\n<li>Ano-genital warts Human papilloma virus<\/li>\n<li>Anthrax Bacillus anthracis<\/li>\n<li>Bacillus cereus food-borne infection\/intoxication Bacillus cereus<\/li>\n<li>Bacterial meningitis (not otherwise specified)<\/li>\n<li>Botulism Clostridium botulinum<\/li>\n<li>Brucellosis Brucella spp.<\/li>\n<li>Campylobacter infection Campylobacter spp.<\/li>\n<li>Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae,<\/li>\n<li>Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae,\u00a0infection or colonisation infection or colonisation<\/li>\n<li>Chancroid Haemophilus ducreyi<\/li>\n<li>Chickenpox \u2013 hospitalised cases Varicella-zoster virus<\/li>\n<li>Chikungunya disease Chikungunya virus<\/li>\n<li>Chlamydia trachomatis infection (genital) Chlamydia trachomatis<\/li>\n<li>Cholera Vibrio cholerae<\/li>\n<li>Clostridium difficile infection Clostridium difficile<\/li>\n<li>Clostridium perfringens (type A) food-borne disease Clostridium perfringens<\/li>\n<li>COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2<\/li>\n<li>Creutzfeldt Jakob disease<\/li>\n<li>variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease<\/li>\n<li>Cryptosporidiosis Cryptosporidium parvum, hominis<\/li>\n<li>Cytomegalovirus infection (congenital) Cytomegalovirus<\/li>\n<li>Dengue fever Dengue virus<\/li>\n<li>Diphtheria Corynebacterium diphtheriae or ulcerans (toxin producing)<\/li>\n<li>Echinococcosis Echinococcus spp.<\/li>\n<li>Enterococcal bacteraemia Enterococcus spp. (blood)<\/li>\n<li>Escherichia coli infection (invasive) Escherichia coli (blood, CSF)<\/li>\n<li>Giardiasis Giardia lamblia<\/li>\n<li>Gonorrhoea Neisseria gonorrhoeae<\/li>\n<li>Granuloma inguinale Klebsiella granulomatis<\/li>\n<li>Haemophilus influenzae disease (invasive) Haemophilus influenzae (blood, CSF or other<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0normally sterile site)<\/li>\n<li>Hepatitis A (acute) infection Hepatitis A virus<\/li>\n<li>Hepatitis B (acute and chronic) infection Hepatitis B virus<\/li>\n<li>Hepatitis C infection Hepatitis C virus<\/li>\n<li>Hepatitis E infection Hepatitis E virus<\/li>\n<li>Herpes simplex (genital) Herpes simplex virus<\/li>\n<li>Herpes simplex (neonatal) Herpes simplex virus<\/li>\n<li>Human immunodeficiency virus infection Human immunodeficiency virus<\/li>\n<li>Influenza Influenza A and B virus<\/li>\n<li>Klebsiella pneumoniae infection (invasive) Klebsiella pneumoniae (blood or CSF)<\/li>\n<li>Legionellosis Legionella spp.<\/li>\n<li>Leprosy Mycobacterium leprae<\/li>\n<li>Leptospirosis Leptospira spp.<\/li>\n<li>Listeriosis Listeria monocytogenes<\/li>\n<li>Lyme disease (neuroborreliosis) Borrelia burgdorferi<\/li>\n<li>Lymphogranuloma venereum Chlamydia trachomatis<\/li>\n<li>Malaria Plasmodium falciparum, vivax, knowlesi, ovale, malariae<\/li>\n<li>mcr-positive Enterobacteriaceae infection mcr-positive Enterobacteriaceae infection<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0or colonisation or colonisation<\/li>\n<li>Disease Causative Pathogen<\/li>\n<li>Measles Measles virus<\/li>\n<li>Meningococcal disease Neisseria meningitidis<\/li>\n<li>Mumps Mumps virus<\/li>\n<li>Non-specific urethritis<\/li>\n<li>Novel or Rare Antimicrobial-resistant<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Organism (NRAO)<\/li>\n<li>Noroviral infection Norovirus<\/li>\n<li>Paratyphoid Salmonella Paratyphi<\/li>\n<li>Pertussis Bordetella pertussis<\/li>\n<li>Plague Yersinia pestis<\/li>\n<li>Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection (invasive) Pseudomonas aeruginosa (blood or CSF)<\/li>\n<li>Q Fever Coxiella burnetii<\/li>\n<li>Rabies Rabies virus<\/li>\n<li>Respiratory syncytial virus infection Respiratory syncytial virus<\/li>\n<li>Rotavirus infection Rotavirus<\/li>\n<li>Rubella Rubella virus<\/li>\n<li>Salmonellosis Salmonella spp. other than S. Typhi and Paratyphi<\/li>\n<li>Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) SARS-associated coronavirus<\/li>\n<li>Shigellosis Shigella spp.<\/li>\n<li>Smallpox Variola virus<\/li>\n<li>Staphylococcal food poisoning Enterotoxigenic Staphylococcus aureus<\/li>\n<li>Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia Staphylococcus aureus (blood)<\/li>\n<li>Streptococcus group A infection (invasive) Streptococcus pyogenes (blood, CSF or other<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0normally sterile site)<\/li>\n<li>Streptococcus group B infection (invasive) Streptococcus agalactiae (blood, CSF or other<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0normally sterile site)<\/li>\n<li>Streptococcus pneumoniae infection (invasive) Streptococcus pneumoniae (blood, CSF or other<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0normally sterile site)<\/li>\n<li>Syphilis Treponema pallidum<\/li>\n<li>Tetanus Clostridium tetani<\/li>\n<li>Toxoplasmosis Toxoplasma gondii<\/li>\n<li>Trichinosis Trichinella spp.<\/li>\n<li>Trichomoniasis Trichomonas vaginalis<\/li>\n<li>Tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex<\/li>\n<li>Tularemia Francisella tularensis<\/li>\n<li>Typhoid Salmonella Typhi<\/li>\n<li>Typhus Rickettsia prowazekii<\/li>\n<li>Verotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection Verotoxin producing Escherichia coli<\/li>\n<li>Viral encephalitis<\/li>\n<li>Viral haemorrhagic fevers<\/li>\n<li>Viral meningitis<\/li>\n<li>West Nile fever West Nile virus<\/li>\n<li>Yellow fever Yellow fever virus<\/li>\n<li>Yersiniosis Yersinia enterocolitica, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis<\/li>\n<li>Zika virus infection Zika virus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Public_Health_Threats\"><\/span>Public Health Threats<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Public Health Departments provide certain expertise and support for childhood and other immunisation programs.<\/p>\n<p>Public Health Departments prepare for public health threats involving potential harm to an exposed population, which may reach crisis levels.\u00a0 These include outbreaks of influenza, toxic fumes, explosions, water contamination, biological and radiological issues, radioactive releases, flooding, etc.\u00a0 They participate in emergency preparedness and planning. They contribute to the prevention of major emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Health Divisions and the Public Health Service Protection Surveillance Centre seek to provide early detection of risks. \u00a0This includes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reactions to notifiable diseases<\/li>\n<li>assessing ng information on regional outbreaks<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0surveillance of various sources,<\/li>\n<li>enhanced surveillance of \u00a0particular risks involved<\/li>\n<li>liaison with colleagues in veterinary, marine, agricultural, environmental and other agencies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Health_Improvement\"><\/span>Health Improvement<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The groups contribute to health improvement by<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>surveillance and monitoring of diseases,<\/li>\n<li>advocating for decision-makers to carry out changes to make healthier choices,<\/li>\n<li>health impact assessment of policies, programs and projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Public Health groups are involved in<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>child safety awareness program,<\/li>\n<li>global health,<\/li>\n<li>sexual health,<\/li>\n<li>congenital anomaly registers in Ireland<\/li>\n<li>initiatives on obesity and overweight.<\/li>\n<li>Public Health is involved in the assessment of needs and health status. 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