Browsing by Subject "Health promotion"
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Influence agenda setting through Twitter for health promotion
(2016-05-12)We are in what is known as the new media era, and it impacts all dimensions and aspects of people’s lives. Through advanced technology and the internet, new media continues evolving to change people’s lives so that they ... -
Informing food policies in post-primary schools in Ireland: Knowledge to Action
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Older people and homecare in Ireland: How much do we care?
(NUI Galway, 2023-02-23)Homecare is instrumental in enabling older people to remain living at home and avoid long-term stay settings, particularly for those without family members or friends to provide care informally. Homecare was initially ... -
Peer Influences on adolescent body image in Ireland
(2017-03-31)Body image, which represents how one sees, thinks, feels and acts toward their physical appearance, is a pressing issue for adolescents. National studies in Ireland have highlighted that adolescents are dissatisfied with ... -
The perceived experiences of primary healthcare professionals in Ireland: interprofessional teamwork in practice.
(2016-05-04)International trends indicate that countries promote and encourage the use of interprofessional teams as the preferred approach to delivering healthcare services to address the health and social care needs of their citizens. ... -
PROMO Project Feedback from Ireland: Executive Summary.
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2010)Promoting mental health and preventing mental ill health amongst socially marginalized people is a major challenge to European societies. There are various policies and services to achieve this in member states, but ... -
Promoting mental health and social well-being: Cross border opportunities and challenges
(Centre For Cross Border Studies, 2002-06)This project reviews current cross-border co-operation in the development of mental health promotion in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The project is comprised of two main strands of work: ... -
Promotion of mental health and prevention of mental disorders: priorities for implementation
(2015)There is compelling evidence from high-quality studies that mental health promotion and primary prevention interventions can reduce the risk of mental disorders, enhance protective factors for good mental and physical ... -
A qualitative study of the impact of sleep loss on the daily lives of working mothers
(NUI Galway, 2017-06-15)Background: Working mothers are a population who experience sleep disruption and sleep loss on an ongoing basis. While this has been explored in several studies, there are no studies examining the impact this has on their ... -
Rapid review of the evidence on the effectiveness of mental health promotion interventions in low and middle income countries.
(World Health Organisation, 2011)This rapid review analyses the evidence on the effectiveness of mental health promotion interventions in low and middle-income countries (LAMICs). The review provides a narrative synthesis, based on a systematic review of ... -
(re) Structuring the agency: Agency working arrangements and social care in the era of austerity and beyond
(Social Care Ireland, 2016-09-01)In Ireland, the austerity era of recent years brought (un)employment to the fore in a manner not seen since the 1980s. Within the arena of health and social care, this was epitomised by the embargo . Confined within an ... -
A review of the evidence on enhancing psychosocial skills development in children and young people
(HPRC, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2015)Summary Background: This report synthesizes the findings from international evidence reviews on the effectiveness of psychosocial skills development programmes for children and young people. A rapid review of the effectiveness ... -
A review of the international literature on health promotion competencies: identifying frameworks and core competencies
(SAGE Journals Online, 2009-06)Building a competent health promotion workforce with the necessary knowledge and skills to develop, implement and evaluate health promotion policies and practice is fundamental to mainstreaming and sustaining health promotion ... -
A review of the international literature on health promotion competencies: identifying frameworks and core competencies.
(SAGE Journals Online, 2009-05-15)Building a competent health promotion workforce with the necessary knowledge and skills to develop, implement and evaluate health promotion policies and practice is fundamental to mainstreaming and sustaining health promotion ... -
Risk, science and the politics of the blood scandals in Ireland, Scotland, England and Finland
(Royal Irish Academy, 2016-11-07)This article examines the HIV/Hepatitis C disaster that engulfed those suffering from haemophilia in Ireland, Scotland, England/Wales and Finland during the 1980s and 1990s; the largest health scandal since the ... -
Sex, stigma and silence: the discursive construction of HIV in Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2019-01-11)Improvements to treatment mean that HIV is now a chronic, manageable illness. People living with HIV (PLHIV) have a life expectancy on a par with HIV negative individuals, and are non-infectious once the treatment goal of ... -
A systematic review of the effectiveness of mental health promotion interventions for young people in low and middle income countries.
(BioMed Central, 2013)BackgroundThis systematic review provides a narrative synthesis of the evidence on the effectiveness of mental health promotion interventions for young people in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Commissioned by the ... -
Taking a Health Promotion Approach to the Problem of Bullying
(2008)Health promotion is an emerging, multidisciplinary, endeavour that has much to offer the study of bullying. The negative health impacts of bullying are well documented, and indicate that having been bullied is associated ... -
Taking part in school life: views of children
(Emerald, 2014-01-01)Investigating active travel to primary school in Ireland Investigating active travel to primary school in Ireland Natasha Daniels (Health Promotion Research Centre, Aras na Coiribe, National University of Ireland Galway, ... -
Toward international collaboration on credentialing in health promotion and health education: The Galway Consensus Conference
(SAGE Journals Online, 2009-05)The interest in competencies, standards, and quality assurance in the professional preparation of public health professionals whose work involves health promotion and health education dates back several decades. In ...