The Infant mortality rate was 4 deaths per 1,000 live births.
Between 1996, and 2016 the number of people over 95 years of age increased by 188%.
[2] The Public Health Directorate has a budget of around £1.6 million a year.
It runs school awareness programmes and the Stoptober anti-smoking scheme.
A three-month supervised toothbrushing pilot project in six nurseries was started in September 2017 organised by the Public Health Directorate, with plans for a wider programme starting in 2018.