Towards health: the challenges in Cork and Kerry: first annual report of the Director of Public Health, Southern Health Board, 1996.

In this first Public Health report we have chosen to concentrate on selected key issues concerning our health. We focus on the health of our children, on the quality of the air we breathe and the water we drink; on patterns of infectious disease and their prevention; on the food we eat in terms of its inherent safety and nourishment value; on cancer as a major cause of death and illness; and how our way of life affects our health.