Director of Public Health Annual Report 2024: North Wales on the Move

Being active in our everyday lives is one of the main factors for improving health and wellbeing 

When we move more, this benefits our physical and mental health and can make us feel better, as well as reducing stress and anxiety and improving workplace sickness absence. Even at a low level, being active on a daily basis confers a whole range of benefits, especially in relation to mental wellbeing, and it also helps us to live happier and healthier lives. 

This can include a broad range of activities in any setting, such as play, moving around at home or in the garden, active travel, outdoor recreation, and sport. However, the evidence suggests that we are facing an inactivity emergency, where recent trends show that people in North Wales are becoming less active.

We all have a role to play in being more active

Through leadership and influencing others through our own behaviours and habits, we can encourage change to take place so that moving more and being active becomes the norm for everyone living and working in North Wales.

Read this year’s Director of Public Health report for North Wales, approved by the Board at its meeting in November 2024, below.