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Risk-taking and accidents on Irish farms: an analysis of the 2013 Health and...

The report examines a number of different types of risks that farmers take and looks at whether they are associated...  

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Getting help with difficult tasks may be a key to reducing farm accidents

Farming is the occupation with the highest risk of fatalities in Ireland, with a rate nearly ten times the average across occupations between 2009 and 2015. A new report titled Risk taking and...

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Measuring healthcare expenditure: different methods, different results

Background Accurate information on healthcare expenditure is essential; however, a number of issues arise when healthcare expenditure is being measured. Traditionally healthcare expenditure data in...

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Unmet healthcare needs in Ireland

This Research Bulletin summarises how differing levels of cover for medical care may affect the experience of unmet need for...  

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Do youth access control policies stop young people smoking? Evidence from...

Increasing the legal age at which individuals can buy tobacco has become an increasingly common policy tool aimed at reducing youth smoking. There remains, however, some debate on whether such policies...

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Off to a good start? Primary school experiences and the transition to...

The transition to second-level education has been identified as a major landmark in young people’s lives: moving to a new school involves exposure to new teachers and ways of learning, as well as a new...

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Projections of demand for healthcare in Ireland, 2015-2030: First report from...

This report provides annual projections of demand for public and private health and social care services in Ireland for the years 2015–2030. These projections are based on new ESRI projections for...

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Demand for healthcare projected to increase substantially with rapid growth...

Publication of ESRI Report – Projections of Demand for Healthcare in Ireland, 2015-2030: First Report from the Hippocrates Model Today (26 October) the ESRI published a new report providing annual...

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Understanding use of general practitioner services among children in Ireland

Using data from the first two waves of the Infant Cohort of GUI (i.e., when the children were aged 9 months and 3 years), this report examines the extent to which the current system of healthcare...

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The experience of economic stress among families with children during the...

The impact of the Great Recession in Ireland and the resultant austerity programs have provoked widespread debate about rising levels of poverty and economic stress, and changes in how these are...

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Public Healthcare Entitlements and Healthcare Utilisation among the Older...

The use of direct out-of-pocket payments to finance general practitioner (GP) care by the majority of the population in Ireland is unusual in a European context. Currently, approximately 40% of the...

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Managing cognitive impairment following stroke: protocol for a systematic...

Full list of authors: Niamh A Merriman, Eithne Sexton, Nora-Ann Donnelly, Grainne McCabe, Mary E Walsh, Daniela Rohde, Ashleigh Gorman, Isabelle Jeffares, Niall Pender, David Williams, Frances Horgan,...

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“We don’t have the infrastructure to support them at home”: How health system...

The influence of healthcare system factors on long-term care admissions has received relatively little attention. We address this by examining how inadequacies in the healthcare system impact on...

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A European late starter: lessons from the history of reform in Irish health care

The Irish health care system is unusual within Europe in not providing universal, equitable access to either primary or acute hospital care. The majority of the population pays out-of-pocket fees to...

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Alternative Approaches to Achieving Universal Healthcare – Potential Costs,...

This three year project, funded by the Health Research Board, began in January 2018. The aim of the project is to identify alternative approaches to achieving universal healthcare (UHC) in Ireland and...

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High radon areas and lung cancer prevalence: evidence from Ireland

This paper examined the relationship between radon risk and lung cancer prevalence using a novel dataset combining spatially-coded survey data with a radon risk map. A logit model was employed to test...

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High radon areas and lung cancer prevalence in Ireland

Exposure to radon gas is thought to be the second most important cause of lung cancer worldwide after smoking. This naturally-occurring radioactive gas can seep into houses from beneath the ground or...

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First study of its kind finds a strong link between radon exposure and lung...

Living in an area with a high level of radon exposure increases the risk of lung cancer diagnosis, according to new ESRI research. The study finds that this is the case even after accounting for other...

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A profile of physiotherapy supply in Ireland

The lack of information on public and private physiotherapy supply in Ireland makes current and future resource allocation decisions difficult. This paper estimates the supply of physiotherapists in...

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Analysis of work-related injury and illness 2001 to 2014: Agriculture,...

This analysis draws on the CSO’s Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) to explore work-related accidents and illnesses in the agriculture,...  

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