Browsing Public Health & Primary Care (Theses and Dissertations) by Date of Publication
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The natural history of injecting drug use in a Dublin community (1985-1995)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2000)The number of drug users within Ireland and the European Union is increasing. It is estimated that there are about 14 thousand drug users in Ireland and a total of between 1.5 and 2 million within the European Union. Drug ... -
An evaluation of pain management post surgery
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Community Health and General Practice, 2001)Patients continue to suffer m oderate pain post surgery, much of which may be unnecessary with careful strategic pain management. The influence of routine and rituals in the management of pain is evident from the literature. ... -
Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV in the Irish prisoner population : an overview of prevalence rates and risk factors
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2002)Introduction: This thesis reports the estimated prevalence of antibodies to hepatitis B core antigen, hepatitis C virus and HIV in two distinct prison populations. -- Objective: This thesis provides a synthesised analysis ... -
Improving equity in resource allocation in the Irish health service
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2004)Health systems worldwide are moving towards making their systems more transparent and more equitable, often due to pressure from consumers. Reforms to resource allocation systems are one attempt to do this. The nature of ... -
An investigation into the use of the temporal scan statistic as a monitoring tool for health impact assessment
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2005)Health impact assessment (HIA) is an important methodological development within public health. Its purpose is to ensure that health is considered as a part of all government proposals and policies. While there has been ... -
Psychosocial determinants of glycaemic control in people with type two diabetes
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2006)Whilst the number of people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes continues to rise to epidemic proportions, there has been a more moderate rise in the acknowledgement of the psychosocial factors that play a role in the treatment ... -
Methodological considerations in the development of small area deprivation indices
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2007)Health inequalities exist such that people with lower incomes and poorer social conditions experience poorer health. When individual level characteristics are aggregated to an area level, the socioeconomic status or ... -
Changing illness perceptions in poorly controlled Type 2 diabetes : a randomised controlled trial of a psychological, family-based intervention
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2009)Poor glycaemic (blood sugar) control in type 2 diabetes is associated with the development of microvascular and macrovascular complications, which have serious health and quality of life implications for patients themselves, ... -
Alcohol intervention programme in a sporting setting : a cluster randomised trial to evaluate a setting-based alcohol intervention programme in the GAA
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2010)The link between alcohol and sport is pervasive in many countries, including Ireland, but there is a dearth of information on alcohol use among amateur sporting organisations in Ireland and internationally. A cluster ... -
Peer support in type 2 diabetes : a radomised controlled trial in primary care
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2010)Type 2 diabetes has now reached epidemic proportions in many countries. Self management programmes for type 2 diabetes have recently moved away from the traditional didactic interventions to patient empowerment and peer-led ... -
The development of appropriate and consistent information for policy-making in post-conflict settings : lessons from the use of a household survey in Bosnia and Herzegovina
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2012)This study looks at the challenges in developing a national health information system (HIS) that is ‘fit for purpose’ to support policy-making in poorly resourced and postconflict settings. It examines how, and to what ... -
Development of an adjusted scan statistic for the efficient detection of road collision 'hot spots' along the road network in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2012)Road traffic collisions impose a major burden on society, thus there is a real incentive for inter-sectoral collaboration when decisions and policies are being formulated. This research is set in the context of the latest ... -
The distribution and determinants of home-based social care utilisation in older people : Irish and comparative perspectives
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Centre of Health Policy and Management, 2012)The demand for home-based long-term care Is expected to grow as our population ages. This thesis aimed to address current knowledge deficits related to the distribution and determinants of home-based social care utilisation ... -
The chronic ills of multimorbidity : a cross-sectional examination of the prevalence, patterns and factors associated with multimorbidity in the Irish population aged 50 years and over and its corresponding impact on health and social care utilisation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Centre of Health Policy and Management, 2013)Multimorbidity predicts many adverse health outcomes, placing a heavy burden on the individual as well as population health. It has clear implications for current healthcare provision and with the projected ageing of the ... -
Modelling the cost-effectiveness of cancer prevention : reframing models to better match policy questions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Centre of Health Policy and Management, 2013)This thesis comprises six papers concerning methodological issues in cost- effectiveness analysis (CEA) of healthcare interventions. The unifying theme to these studies is the reframing of CEAs to better correspond to the ... -
Health care delivery, access and utilisation in emerging communities and urban slums of south west Nigeria
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2014)In Nigeria, over 60 percent of the population lack access to modern health care facilities. Low access and effective utilisation even where available, are affected by inadequate health workforce, low quality of care, ... -
Child health and survival in urban slums in Malawi : healthcare seeking practices and relative significance of health system factors in influencing care seeking decisions among care givers of under-five children
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2014)Despite significant improvements in child health indicators over the past few decades globally and in Malawi, various challenges remain. Globally, cost effective interventions to promote child health exist but coverage for ... -
Health insurance demand among formal sector employees in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2014)Understanding and predicting consumer preferences for alternative health insurance design packages is important for a country striving to introduce health insurance. Historically health services and health insurance ... -
The effect of HIV / AIDS on households' access to, perceptions and determinants of willingness to pay for water, sanitation and hygiene in Uganda
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2014)Improved water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is of critical importance in reducing WASH-related diseases among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). The frequency of diarrhoea and skin infections among PLWHA is closely ... -
Understanding volunteer community health worker motivation : a longitudinal cohort study in Sierra Leone
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2014)Governments and non-profit organisations are once again turning to alternative cadres of health workers in an effort to accelerate health targets and address the severe global shortage of human resources for health. In low ...