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. For more information about swine flu please click on the links to the right for the Health Protection Agency, NHS Direct and NHS Choices. The Swine Flu Information Line on 0800 1 513 513 will be updated regularly.
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Pass It On ... County Durham
Learn how to cook simple, delicious, healthy, fresh, affordable food then Pass it On...
Health Profiles 2009
The Health Profiles for 2009 are produced by the Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO) and provide a snapshot of health in County Durham and Darlington.
Time to Change - Let's End Mental Health Discrimination
Time to Change is England's most ambitious programme to end discrimination faced by people who experience mental health problems.
Go to: Time to Change - Let's End Mental Health Discrimination
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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 there are 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.
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,
Go to: Confidential sexual health advice direct to your mobile phone