Health protection – collection

Flooding: health guidance and advice

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

Contents

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

• Published: 1 February 2014
• Updated: 30 December 2014

+ full page history

• 30 December 2014 1:53pm: Added Public Health England surveillance report summaries for 2014 floods.
• 1 February 2014 12:00am: First published.

• From: Public Health England