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Building capacity for effective implementation of mental health promotion
(eContent Management Pty Ltd, 2007-05)
In Ireland, a country of just over 4 million people, there is now a strong infrastructure for health promotion with over 300 dedicated health promotion specialists working at the national and regional levels implementing ...
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 ...
Survival of HIV-1 and HIV-2 perinatally infected children in The Gambia
(Wolters Kluwer, 2002-11-14)
The risk of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV-2 is much lower than that of HIV-1, but the long-term prognosis of perinatally infected HIV-2 children is unknown. We re-visited children who were part of a large MTCT ...
Measures of self-reported morbidity according to age, gender and general medical services eligibility in the national survey of lifestyles, attitudes and nutrition.
(2002-07)
Reported rates of morbidity are given for angina, heart attack, stroke, raised blood pressure, cholesterol,diabetes mellitus and for other general conditions as well as difficulty with hearing and glasses/contact lens use. ...
European food availability databank based on household budget surveys
(Oxford Journals, 2003-06)
There is a need in Europe for sources of dietary data that would provide a regular flow of comparable nutrition information. In this context, the Data Food Networking (DAFNE) project has been developing a cost-effective ...
Living longer and feeling better: Healthy lifestyle, self-rated health, obesity and depression in Ireland
(2009)
Background: The combination of four protective lifestyle behaviours (being physically active, a non-smoker, a moderate alcohol consumer and having adequate fruit and vegetable intake) has been estimated to increase life ...
Addressing the determinants of positive mental health: concepts, evidence and practice
(2009)
Positive mental health is recognised as a key resource for population well-being and the social and economic prosperity of society. This paper provides an overview of current concepts of positive mental health and its ...
Exploring the relationship between caring, love and intimacy in nursing
(Mark Allen Healthcare, 2004)
The paper utilises the five distinct perspectives on caring proposed by Morse et al (1990) to illustrate the relationship between love, intimacy and caring. Two distinct types of love, namely agape (altruism/charity) and ...
Working in an overcrowded accident and emergency department: nurses' narratives
(Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation, 2007-12)
Aim The aim of this study was to highlight nursing issues associated with overcrowding ( or access block) in the Accident and Emergency (A&E) department.Design An interpretive phenomenological approach was adopted, with ...
Ethnomethodology: Time for a revisit? A discussion paper
(Elsevier, 2007-07-05)
The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive overview of ethnomethodology and explore its usefulness as a methodology for nursing. Ethnomethodology was conceived through the writings of Harold Garfinkel, an American ...