​WE are smoking less and getting screened more – but Grimsby’s East Marsh needs help and we run a continued risk of a measles, mumps and rubella outbreak.

The 2009 Annual Public Health Report for North East Lincolnshire has been published today, taking a detailed look at the health and wellbeing of our area.

From the importance of screening to how worklessness affects our health, the document has this time focused on wider issues and the work which has been done.

The report, by Dr Tony Hill, director of public health, focuses on the East Marsh, the effect deprivation has on people’s health and what is being done about it.

He has also examined immunisation, in particular how the area – like many others in the UK – is at continued risk of cases and outbreaks of measles, mumps and rubella because of a low MMR jab take-up.

And he has investigated how people with disabilities in North East Lincolnshire can achieve a healthier lifestyle.

Concluding his research, Dr Hill has urged health professionals to work as one to improve health and wellbeing.

See today’s Grimsby Telegraph for an in-depth examination of the report.

Today, it was being presented to the Care Trust Plus board – see your Grimsby Telegraph tomorrow for their comments.

Read the report in full at www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/publichealthreport2009