{"id":501,"date":"2026-02-06T15:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/about-public-health\/what-does-public-health-do\/annual-public-health-report\/covid-19-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:39:06","slug":"previous-reports","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/about-public-health\/annual-public-health-report\/previous-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Older annual public health reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/s\/PublicDocs\/PublicHealth\/IQARRoa847TcTJKoHXB2n_20AT0wKqsGT72akDlZPdeLcPM?e=SHTVDt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2020\/21: COVID-19 Pandemic<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/s\/PublicDocs\/PublicHealth\/EUtgGbVbExlAvyq2mswKsJsB08Nb7Jjo2cLYJM7wAA1pDg?e=3dhRmn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2019\/20: Planetary and human health<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/s\/PublicDocs\/PublicHealth\/EbJ5DrWppLtHgFfrTYKP9RoBodP5FXKcDL5ZOXPqhWO0Xw?e=tvUDac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2018\/19: Mental Health<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/s\/PublicDocs\/PublicHealth\/EX5TY5g4juhJuhPvuCxGZx4BDUN5i2qqxShsaMi6Ajevvw?e=kywnYu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017\/18: The health and wellbeing of children<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/sites\/PublicDocs\/PublicHealth\/_layouts\/15\/guestaccess.aspx?docid=0a5848ba80d2145d78a43ddea3c52f3cc&amp;authkey=ARKNsTX6kBQUz7HS9bj8eTg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016\/17: Place-based public health<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/s\/PublicDocs\/PublicHealth\/EVHgZlsZIzhLjsdSraY3s0QBfZcNwYkpkvjROxXn7bbhyA?e=HiG8yB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015\/16: Fairness, equality and justice<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/s\/PublicDocs\/PublicHealth\/EWkvB6nz5mFAusrnoLn93wQBClNXKtczDtLM-8eM7fkumg?e=CPU0cX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2014\/15: Health inequality<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/s\/PublicDocs\/PublicHealth\/EdCEhO1mMTBPpFDitwd0IoYBA8TCT1S7X2V2uSCAyGbohA?e=XRCPso\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2013\/14: The shape of things to come<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/s\/PublicDocs\/PublicHealth\/EYbzJdTOl_1EvBEapMYQmtIBTAX6ljTZQ3cL2QyL4YOTaA?e=E28TLv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2012\/13: Progress made over the last six years<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/s\/PublicDocs\/PublicHealth\/EWDRcRvLMgVMgyq0ga2WZRABMbvlIorXgZHRlI3niEbb_Q?e=qiHp6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2011\/12: 60 years of public health in Devon<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/s\/PublicDocs\/PublicHealth\/EcD6l72oSURFgBaBngdM8zoByzPUGvEROr0mSfmmPEW_bw?e=wJIGZ7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2010\/11: The health of older people<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/s\/PublicDocs\/PublicHealth\/ES7Fjfb2o8JEvXqNrf2OCOIBqZ64aZ-Wb3ZnRhibANjQiA?e=7E3ybu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2009\/10: Mental health<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:u:\/s\/PublicDocs\/PublicHealth\/EW-WTsRfpVxBghM-Gi56o4QBiAMqBf2a0pzNVMwOu_A0WA?e=xhQGSZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2008\/09: The health of children and young people<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/s\/PublicDocs\/PublicHealth\/ER4FBkfCcXZIrIZhmT2LxN0BsXCr7RKD17guz0Ls2aQW4g?e=tiUrzj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2007\/08: Tackling inequalities in health<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Responsibility for public health moved back to local authorities from the NHS in April 2013. Public health was last the responsibility of local authorities prior to the health reforms of 1974, at which time the County Medical Officer was responsible for producing an annual report on health in their community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/public-health\/about-public-health\/annual-public-health-report\/previous-reports\/annual-report-of-the-county-medical-officer-1952\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2208\">Annual Report of the County Medical Officer for Devon from 1952<\/a> highlights the transformations in health and society seen since the middle of the 20th Century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responsibility for public health moved back to local authorities from the NHS in April 2013. Public health was last the responsibility of local authorities prior to the health reforms of 1974, at which time the County Medical Officer was responsible for producing an annual report on health in their community. The Annual Report of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":245,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-501","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 15:46:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}