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The HSE Talking Health and Wellbeing Podcast series made its return last week focusing on helping parents tackle various health and wellbeing challenges their children face. Our first three episodes in August and September focus on ‘Back to School’, ‘Healthy Lunchboxes for Kids’, and ‘Screen Time and Young People’. You can find these episodes on […]
It’s perfectly normal for toddlers and small children to refuse to eat or even taste new foods. In fact, refusing new food can be a normal stage of a child’s development. That doesn’t mean this isn’t stressful for parents when it happens. It can also lead to a lot of conflict in a household during […]
Each year in Ireland, over 4,500 people die due to smoking. Each week in our hospitals, almost 1,000 admissions are smoking-related.1 These numbers are stark and are a reminder that Ireland is still deep in an epidemic of smoking-related harm. Approximately, 1-in-5 (18%) adults currently smoke with men being more likely to smoke than women, […]
In 2019, Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick, signed up to the HIV Fast-Track Cities Initiative, committing to scale up local HIV responses to help end the HIV epidemic by 2030. In 2022, the HSE Sexual Health and Crisis Pregnancy Programme (SHCPP) conducted a scoping study of available HIV data, services and support in the four […]
In 2020, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was agreed upon between Creative Ireland, the Department of Health (Healthy Ireland), the Health Service Executive (HSE) Health and Wellbeing, and the Arts Council. This MOU aims to develop a partnership to deliver sustainable, effective and high-quality creative programmes and initiatives to support health and wellbeing goals. A […]
One in four women dies from heart disease and stroke each year, the same as men. Yet, women are less likely to recognise heart attack symptoms and take longer to seek medical help. The Irish Heart Foundation, supported by the Department of Health and the HSE, are launching their Her Heart Matters campaign this September, […]
Healthy Fingal, HSE Health and Wellbeing, Balbriggan Tidy Towns, and Balbriggan Basketball Club organised a beach clean-up on Saturday 27th July. Taking advantage of the good weather a beach clean-up was organised to focus on removing cigarette butts and vapes from Balbriggan beach. The clean-up demonstrated great collaboration within the community with young people from […]