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"Shut up and put up" - barriers to tackling workplace bullying in a public sector organisation.
(National Institute of Health Sciences, 2008-10)
Workplace health promotion, concerned as it is with promoting the health of those in the workplace setting, has paid suprisingly little attention to the phenomenon of workplace bullying, despite its prevalence and ...
Length of stay and associated costs of obesity related hospital admissions in Ireland.
(BioMed Central, 2008-04)
Background - Obesity is the cause of other chronic diseases, psychological problems, obesity shortens the lifespan and puts strain on health systems. The risk associated with childhood obesity in particular, which will ...
Researching health inequalities in adolescents: The development of the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) Family Affluence Scale.
(Elsevier, 2008)
Socioeconomic inequalities in adolescent health have been little studied until recently, partly due to the lack of appropriate and agreed upon measures for this age group. The difficulties of measuring adolescent socioeconomic ...
Cluster randomisation and design effects in school surveys: an exploration of the Irish Health Behaviours in School-aged Children data.
(National Institute of Health Sciences, 2008-09)
School surveys are typically conducted in classrooms where children are clustered and thus each participating student is not fully independent of others. Such unavoidable cluster randomisation increases the size of standard ...
HBSC Ireland: Child Wellbeing in South County Dublin
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008-12)
This short report presents a brief analysis of the national well-being indicators for
children in the South Dublin County Council area. These analyses were matched with
randomly selected children of the same age-groups ...
Child well-being: children's, parents' and teachers' perceptions.
(National Institute of Health Sciences, 2008-10)
That chldren's lives be better understood is a necessary contributing step to the development of child centred quality supports, services and policies and it would appear logical that actively seeking out children's voices ...
Evaluation of the MindOut Programme in Youthreach Centres
(Na, 2008-08)
This report describes the evaluation of the MindOut programme that was implemented in
Youthreach Centres in the HSE West (Galway, Mayo and Roscommon). The MindOut
programme was originally developed as a resource to promote ...
HBSC Ireland: Physical Activity Patterns by Age and Gender
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008-11)
This short report presents a brief analysis of Moderate-Vigorous Physical Activity
(MVPA) among Irish schoolchildren by age, gender, urban or rural location and
health board region.
Contraceptive use by 15-year-old students at their last sexual intercourse: results from 25 countries.
(American Medical Association, 2008-01)
Objectives: To identify and report cross-national patterns in contraceptive use among sexually active adolescents.
Design: A cross-national cross-sectional survey.
Setting: Data were collected in 2002 by self-report ...
Evaluating the implementation of the youth-led emotional well-being project 'Getting it Together'.
(2008-08)
This study reports on the evaluation of a youth-led initiative on the promotion of emotional well-being among young people aged 16-25 years. Over a six month period, the Getting it Together project worked with a group of ...