Population Health and Wellbeing
Time is what the Health Workforce mostly need IFIC wants to join organisations and people around the world to celebrate the World Health Worker Week and acknowledge the efforts that our health and care workforce have been making to embrace the contemporary challenges of our care systems. Our workforce are bearing the brunt of the…
Read MoreInclusion health is a service, research, and policy agenda that aims to prevent and redress health and social inequities among the most vulnerable and excluded populations. Addressing social inequalities to ensure the best health outcomes for populat
Read MoreIn the last of our series we will look at population health management and Dr Oliver Gröne, Vice Chairman of the Board at OptiMedis AG will present the systems and processes required to achieve the greatest improvements in health and care based on hi
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The unmet Rehabilitation needs in an Inclusion Health Integrated Care Programme for Homeless Adults in Dublin, Ireland
Aine Carroll, University College Dublin, IE
Siobhan O’Brien, University College Dublin, IE
Deirdre Harrington, National Rehabilita
The Development of an Inclusion Health Integrated Care Programme for Homeless Adults in Dublin, Ireland
Clíona Ní Cheallaigh, St James’s Hospital; Trinity College, IE
Ann-Marie Lawlee, St James’s Hospital, IE
Jess Sears, DEPAUL, IE
Joanne Dowds, St
The HSE Breastfeeding Action Plan 2016 – 2021
Authors: Melissa Canny , Siobhan Hourigan
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Introduction: Breastfeeding is the biologically normal feeding method for infants and young children and ensures optimum growth and development. The Worl
From local organisational harmonisation to Global change leader: a story of operational success
Authors: Michelle Kearns , Dorcas Collier, Margaret Curran, Phonsie McCarron
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Introduction: (comprising context and problem statement) Like many c
Active Ageing – Implementing integrated care for falls prevention and bone health at scale
Author: Irene Frances O Byrne-Maguire
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Introduction and aim: The purpose of AFFINITY (activating falls and fractures prevention in Ireland together),
Irish Traveller’ Ethnic Minority Group – Chronic Conditions Community Heart Health Pilot Programme
Authors: Ann Marie Lawlor , Claire Fitzpatrick, Seathrun O’Casaide
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“Given their high mortality, likely high incidence, and low appreciation of
Health Atlas Ireland – Resource Profiler
Authors: Howard Johnson , Ian Folan, Mel McIntyre, Dougie Beaton
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Introduction: The Resource Profiler informs decisions about meeting local health needs. The available local health resource (such as st
A mixed methods exploration of the housing needs of older people in social housing, comparing standard and “sheltered” housing models
Authors: Suzanne Timmons , Lorna Kenny, Mary Rose Day, Cathal O’Connell, Joe Finnerty, Siobhan Fox
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Introduc
Implementation of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS)
Authors: Gary Steven Norman , Aisling Heffernan
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Permanent childhood hearing impairment (PCHI) is the commonest birth condition with a prevalence of 1-3/1000. This rises to 10/1000
Innovative co-design of integrated services designed to improve access to health care
Authors: Fiona O’Reilly , Joseph Doyle, Eamon Keenan
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An introduction: (comprising background and problem statement) Homeless people suffer higher mortality