Browsing Public Health & Primary Care (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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Recruiting `hard to reach? parents for health promotion research: experiences from a qualitative study
(2021)Objective: Marginalised populations are less likely to take part in health research, and are sometimes considered ‘easy to ignore’. We aimed to describe our approach and results of recruiting parents who experience ... -
Reporting of occupational exposures to blood and body fluids in the primary dental care setting in Scotland: an evaluation of current practice and attitudes
(2014)Objectives: To evaluate experience, practice and beliefs regarding occupational exposures to blood and oral fluids among a random sample of 300 dentists working in Scotland's NHS primary dental services. Method: A ... -
Retention of health workers in Malawi: perspectives of health workers and district management.
(2009)Background Shortage of human resources is a major problem facing Malawi, where more than 50% of the population lives in rural areas. Most of the district health services are provided by clinical health officers specially ... -
Review of the Implementation of the 2001 Report of the National Advisory Committee on Palliative Care as it relates to Adult Palliative Care
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Shared care across the interface between primary and specialty care in management of long term conditions
(2017)Background Shared care has been used in the management of many chronic conditions with the assumption that it delivers better care than primary or specialty care alone; however, little is known about the effectiveness of ... -
Shared Decision Making Needs a Communication Record
(ACM, 2013)Increasing dependability in collaboration work among health professionals will directly improve patient outcomes, and reduce healthcare costs. Our research examines the development of a shared visual display to facilitate ... -
SMAD7 variant rs4939827 is associated with colorectal cancer risk in Croatian population.
(2013)Background Twenty common genetic variants have been associated with risk of developing colorectal cancer (CRC) in genome wide association studies to date. Since large differences between populations exist, generalisability ... -
Smoking cessation programmes for women living in disadvantaged communities, We Can Quit 2 : A systematic review protocol
(2019)Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in Ireland with almost 6,000 smokers dying each year from smoking-related diseases. Amongst younger Irish women, smoking rates are considerably higher in those from ... -
The SOS-framework (Systems of Sedentary behaviours): An international transdisciplinary consensus framework for the study of determinants, research priorities and policy on sedentary behaviour across the life course: A DEDIPAC-study
(2016)Background: Ecological models are currently the most used approaches to classify and conceptualise determinants of sedentary behaviour, but these approaches are limited in their ability to capture the complexity of and ... -
Spatial Variation in General Medical Services Income in Dublin General Practitioners
(2011)The general medical services (GMS) scheme provides care free at the point of use for the 30% most economically deprived section of the population and the elderly. Almost all people of over-70-year olds are eligible for the ... -
The SPHERE Study. Secondary prevention of heart disease in general practice: a randomised controlled trial of tailored practice and patient care plans with parallel qualitative, economic and policy analyses.
(BioMed Central, 2005)BACKGROUND: The aim of the SPHERE study is to design, implement and evaluate tailored practice and personal care plans to improve the process of care and objective clinical outcomes for patients with established coronary ... -
Standardised Mortality Ratios in Homeless Populations in Dublin.
(Dublin Regional Homeless Executive and Health Service Executive. Dublin., 2018)Three hundred and forty three homeless people were verified as having died in the Dublin region between 2005 and 2015. More than three quarters were male (n=263/76.7%). However, due to probable incompleteness of recording ... -
A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Alternative Cadres in Community Based Rehabilitation
(2012)BACKGROUND: The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) aim to improve population health and the quality and dignity of people's lives, but their achievement is constrained by the crisis in human resources for health. An ... -
A telephone survey of parental attitudes and behaviours regarding teenage drinking
(2010)Background: Irish teenagers demonstrate high rates of drunkenness and there has been a progressive fall in age of first drinking in recent decades. International research indicates that parents exert substantial influence ... -
Ten-year survival of Down syndrome births.
(1997)Objective: To determine the survival status of children with Down syndrome (DS), and to document factors influencing survival. Design: Follow-up study of cases identified from the Dublin European Register of Congenital ... -
A theory-based multicomponent intervention to reduce occupational sedentary behaviour in professional male workers : protocol for a cluster randomised crossover pilot feasibility study
(2020)Background: Prolonged sitting, a significant risk factor for increased morbidity and mortality, is accumulated mostly in the workplace. There is limited research targeting specific at-risk populations to reduce occupational ... -
Time for complete transparency about conflicts of interest in public health nutrition research [version 2; peer review: 2 approved].
(2019)We are a group of researchers and academics with decades of experience in the protection and promotion of public health. We are writing to raise our concerns about how conflicts of interest are reported in public ...