Browsing Centre for Health Policy and Management by Date of Publication
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Towards an Electronic Register, Tracking and Management System for the National Childhood Primary Immunisation Programme
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Centre of Health Policy and Management, 2002) -
Leveraging health information to enable the transformation of chronic disease management : the epilepsy exemplar
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Centre of Health Policy and Management, 2012)Like most chronic conditions, the diagnosis and optimum management of epilepsy relies on contributions from a number of healthcare disciplines in a variety of geographically diverse number of healthcare settings e.g. ... -
Improving access to maternal health services in eastern Uganda : changing incentives through voucher schemes
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Centre of Health Policy and Management, 2013)The majority of women in Sub Saharan Africa still give birth without a skilled birth attendant. Existing evidence suggests that voucher schemes have the potential to provide more targeted services to vulnerable groups such ... -
How three policies aimed at increasing for-profit hospital care become an accepted method of reform in Ireland between 2000 and 2005 : 'How many ditches do you die on? '
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The dynamics of temporary migration : the experience of South African doctors working in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Centre of Health Policy and Management, 2013)International doctor migration is traditionally considered a straightforward ‘drain’ on source countries and advantageous only for destination countries, who essentially obtain labour at low cost. Doctor migration places ... -
Changing the mix of healthcare providers : impact on price, efficiency and quality
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Centre of Health Policy and Management, 2015)Service providers, the personnel and organisations that deliver care, are the foundation of any health care system. The personnel include not only doctors, but pharmacists, nurses, and an array of allied health professions, ... -
Prospective cohort study of hospital inpatients with advanced cancer : cost analysis of a palliative care consultation team intervention
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Centre of Health Policy and Management, 2015)The provision of care to people living and dying with serious chronic illness is a public health priority in most parts of the world. In a context of demographic change and shifting patterns of disease, the cost of care ... -
Counting the time lived or the time left? : age, proximity to death and prescription expenditures
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Centre of Health Policy and Management, 2015)This thesis set out to investigate whether ageing is a surrogate measure for proximity to death in the older population when estimating medication expenditures. The medication expenditures used were the ingredient cost of ... -
Exploring service use and preferences of care for children with life-limiting neurodevelopmental conditions and their families : a mixed methods study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Centre of Health Policy and Management, 2015)A mixed methodological approach facilitated an in-depth examination of the service experiences, service preferences and financial costs associated with caring for children with life-limiting neurodevelopmental conditions ... -
Consumer mobiltity in the Irish health insurance market : determinants, incentives and risk equalisation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Centre of Health Policy and Management, 2016)Consumer choice of, and competition among, insurers is becoming a more common feature of many health insurance systems, internationally. For competition, theoretically, to work as a tool of resource allocation in these ... -
Economic evaluation of public health interventions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Centre of Health Policy and Management, 2016)This thesis examines the clinical and cost effectiveness of three separate public health interventions that are on the health policy agenda in Ireland and provides information to inform resource allocation at a national ... -
A multistage mixed methods evaluation of the implementation and impact of a reconfiguration of acute medicine in Ireland’s hospitals
Background. To address deficits in the delivery of acute medicineservices in Ireland, the National Acute Medicine Programme (NAMP) was established to optimise the management of acutely ill medical patients in ...