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Bridging the Digital Disconnect for Parents: Exploring Parents Views on Using Technology to Promote Young People s Mental Health.
(HPRC & Inspire Ireland and Young and Well CRC, 2013)
Bridging the Digital Disconnect is a three-year program of research that aims to develop online mental health anddigital literacy resources for adults - including parents, teachers, youth workers, social workers, general ...
Bridging the Digital Disconnect: Exploring Youth, Education, Health and Mental Health Professionals Views on Using Technology to Promote Young People s Mental Health
(HPRC, 2014)
Bridging the Digital Disconnect is a three-year program of research that aims to develop online resources for
adults, including parents, youth workers, education, health and mental health professionals who wish to ...
Scoping Study Health Promotion Workforce Capacity and Education and Training Needs in Low and Middle Income Countries.
(International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), 2011)
This scoping study aimed to identify current capacity for Health Promotion and the priority education and training needs for capacity development in low and middle income countries (LAMICs). Despite a low response rate ...
Time for a paradigm change? Tracing the institutionalisation of health impact assessment in the Republic of Ireland across health and environmental sectors
(Elsevier, 2010-08)
This paper presents a critical analysis of health impact assessment (HIA) in the Republic of Ireland (ROI) in the context of institutional policy and practice. It begins with a brief background to the origins and aims of ...
Social welfare, housing and health policy and the determinants of quality of life for older people in the Republic of Ireland
(2010)
Improving quality of life (QoL) for older people calls for public policy initiatives which have a positive impact on the determinants of quality of life.
This paper presents a review of current social welfare, housing and ...
Evaluating the impact of the Winning New Jobs Programme on the re-employment and mental health of a mixed profile of unemployed people
(The Clifford Beers Foundation, 2010-05)
This paper reports on the evaluation of the JOBS programme (Caplan et al, 1989), an evidence-based intervention designed to promote re-employment and improve the mental health of the unemployed. While previous evaluations ...
Usefulness of a competency-based reflective portfolio for student learning on a Masters Health Promotion programme
(SAGE Journals Online, 2011)
Background: Efforts to identify core competencies within health promotion and health education have been on-going for a number of years. These efforts include work carried out by the International Union for Health Promotion ...
Risk, science and blood: Politics, HIV, hepatitis & haemophilia in Ireland
(2010)
With Ireland's blood supply compromised in the 1980s, the impact upon its haemophiliac community was unprecedented. Thus far, academic attention has focused on apportioning blame and identifying administrative failure: ...
Food marketing in Irish schools
(Emerald, 2010)
Purpose - Schools are thought to represent a growing marketing opportunity for food advertisers in many countries. Marketing of unhealthy food to children is linked to the increased prevalence of obesity worldwide. This ...
Building capacity in workplace health promotion: the case of the Healthy Together e-learning project
(2010-03-26)
The current global economic crisis poses major challenges for workplace health promotion (WHP). Activities that are not perceived to obviously and directly contribute to profits could be sacrificed. This paper argues that ...