Browsing Health Promotion by Title
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Influenza vaccine uptake and attitudes of healthcare workers in Ireland
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2019-11-05)Influenza vaccination uptake by Irish healthcare workers remains sub-optimal despite local initiatives to increase it. To investigate hospital workers' attitudes to influenza vaccination and how this influenced their ... -
Informing food policies in post-primary schools in Ireland: Knowledge to Action
(NUI Galway, 2016-06-15)[No abstract available] -
Injuries among schoolchildren in Ireland. HBSC Ireland Research Factsheet No. 3.
(2012-05)HBSC Ireland 2010 has found that 39.5% of schoolchildren in Ireland report that they were injured and needed medical treatment from a doctor or a nurse once or more in the previous 12 months (47.2% of boys and 31.2% of ... -
Interpersonal relationships as predictors of positive health among Irish youth: The more the merrier.
(Irish Medical Organisation, 2007)ciations with supportive relationships with friends and family members, we conducted an analysis of data from the 2002 Irish Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Study (HBSC); a cross-sectional survey of 8,424 Irish ... -
Intersectoral debate strengthens alliances, advocacy and action for maternal survival in Zambia.
(Oxford Journals, 2008-11-12)The Health Promotion Research Centre of the National University of Ireland, Galway and the University of Zambia's School of Medicine conducted operational research to understand and address the socio-cultural and gender ... -
Investigating active travel to primary school in Ireland
(Emerald, 2014-09-30)Abstract Purpose Active travel to school, by walking or cycling, can positively influence children's health and increase physical activity. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the context and promoters and barriers ... -
The Irish health behaviour in school-aged children (HBSC) study 2014
(Department of Health, 2015)This report presents data from HBSC Ireland 2014, the Irish Health Behaviour in Schoolaged Children survey. The 2014 HBSC survey is the fifth time that data of this kind have been collected from young people across the ... -
The Irish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Study 2018
(NUI Galway, 2020-01-09)This report presents data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey carried out in 2018 in the Republic of Ireland. This is the sixth time that data of this kind have been collected from young people ... -
The Irish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Study 2022
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Is school participation good for children? Associations with health and wellbeing
(Emerald, 2012-02-17)Purpose There is increasing recognition of children's abilities to speak for themselves. School democracy, as demonstrated by genuine participation, has the potential to benefit both teachers and students; leading to ... -
'It sort of widens the Health word': evaluation of a health promotion intervention in the youth work setting.
(Youth Studies Ireland, 2008-04)Defined as a place or social context in which people enage in daily activities in which environmental, organisational and personal factors interact to effect health and well-being, youth organisations clearly qualify as ... -
"...it's all the same no matter how much fruit or vegetables or fresh air we get": traveller women's perceptions of illness causation and health inequalities.
(Elsevier, 2006-10-06)This paper explores the perceptions of illness causation and health inequalities of Travellers, an ethnic minority group who experience considerable social and health disadvantages in Ireland. In order to allow for subjective ... -
'It's hard to make good choices and it costs more': Adolescents' perceptions of the external school food environments
(MDPI, 2021-03-24)Abstract: Research on the impact of school and community food environments on adolescent food choice is heavily reliant on objective rather than subjective measures of food outlets around schools and homes. Gaining the ... -
Legal responses to public crisis: Tribunals of inquiry and the blood crisis in the Republic of Ireland
(2010)This paper will outline the national and international cases of contaminated blood which have emerged as a part of the 'risk society' of modernity since the 1980s. In particular, the paper will examine the Tribunals of ... -
Legislation for smoke-free workplaces and health of bar workers in Ireland: before and after study
(BMJ Group, 2005-10)Objectives - To compare exposure to secondhand smoke and respiratory health in bar staff in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland before and after the introduction of legislation for smoke-free workplaces in the ... -
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 ... -
LGBTI+ Youth in Ireland and across Europe: A two-phased landscape and research gap analysis
(Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and NUI Galway, 2021-05-24)Background: Since the 1990s, there has been a growing corpus of evidence on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and other Sexual and Gender Minority (LGBTI+) youth. However, most of these studies were conducted in the ... -
Life expectancy and productivity loss among narcotics addicts thirty-three years after index treatment
(Routledge, 2006-09-22)This study computed the life expectancy of a cohort of male narcotics addicts followed for 33 years and assessed the productivity lost as a result of premature mortality. The future life expectancy was constructed for the ... -
A literature review on effective risk communication for the prevention and control of communicable diseases in Europe.
(ECDC, 2013)This review examines the current body of literature on risk communication related to communicable diseases, focusing on: (i) definitions and theories of risk communication; (ii) methodologies, tools and guidelines for risk ... -
A Literature Review on Health Communication Campaign Evaluation with Regard to the Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases in Europe
(ECDC, 2014)Executive summary Introduction This review collates and summarises the literature on communication campaign evaluation with relevance to the prevention and control of communicable diseases. The purpose of this review is ...