The 2020 and 2021 edition of the Chief Health Officer report highlights the profound public health challenges to Victoria resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. It brings together a number of reports focusing on the impacts of the COVID-19 virus on health and wellbeing in Victoria as well as the impacts of the unprecedented public health response.
The report also considers other public health challenges including the ongoing impacts on public health of climate change, antimicrobial resistance, and mosquito-borne disease, demonstrating the importance of health authorities and communities being prepared for multiple, concurrent public health challenges.
Finally, the report provides information on mental health, maternal and child health, communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases including cancer, food and water safety, oral health and other health and wellbeing matters.
For more information, Your health: Report of the Chief Health Officer, Victoria, 2020 and 2021 can be found here.
For further information, email prevention@health.vic.gov.au