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Flooding: health guidance and advice

• From: Public Health England
• Part of: Health emergency planning, Flooding and coastal change, and Emergency response
• Published: 1 February 2014
• Last updated: 16 December 2015, see all updates

Flooding presents a number of risks to health. This guidance helps professionals and the public address those risks and clean up safely.

This guidance is for members of the public, home owners and frontline responders.

People living through a flood

1. Flooding: planning, managing and recovering from a flood

   • 6 February 2015
   • Guidance

2. Flooding health advice: mental health following floods

   • 1 February 2014
   • Guidance

3. Floods: how to clean up your home safely

   • 1 February 2014
   • Guidance

4. Flooding: questions and answers about health

   • 1 February 2014
   • Guidance

Frontline responders

1. Recovering from flooding: information for frontline responders

   • 1 February 2014
   • Guidance

2. Flooding and mental health: essential information for frontline responders

   • 1 February 2014
   • Guidance

Flooding and health surveillance

1. 2014 floods: surveillance reports

   • 28 February 2014
   • Guidance

2. Flooding: protocol for establishing health registers

   • 1 October 2014
   • Guidance

3. Flooding: surveillance of health effects

   • 1 August 2014
   • Research and analysis

Document information

Published: 1 February 2014

Updated: 16 December 2015

+ full page history

1. 16 December 2015 Added connection to 'Environmental management: flooding and coastal change'.
2. 30 December 2014 Added Public Health England surveillance report summaries for 2014 floods.
3. 1 February 2014 First published.

From: Public Health England

Part of: Health emergency planning Flooding and coastal change Emergency response