Using data at different geographical levels: pros & cons

Posted April 1st, 2009 by arlene.mckay

Start: 8 May 2009 - 10:00

End: 8 May 2009 - 12:30

Health Analysts’ Special Interest Group Seminar
Seminar title: ‘Using data at different geographical levels: pros & cons’
10am-12.30pm 8 May 2009

Room N122 – Nurses Building, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Co. Louth

Ireland and Northern Ireland’s Population Health Observatory (INIsPHO), located within the Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH), invites you to a seminar of the Health Analysts’ Special Interest Group (HASIG).

Health-related data is produced at various different geographical levels – from trans-national to national to regional to local. The seminar will focus on data from different geographical levels and will examine:

What geographical data is available
When to use data from different geographical levels
How that data can be used
Benefits and drawbacks.

You will have the opportunity to put your questions to the speakers and discuss these issues with fellow HASIG members.
How to find Dundalk Institute of Technology and Campus Map.

Seminar Programme
10:00	Registration with tea and coffee
10:15	'Local health and wellbeing indicators for the island of Ireland' Lorraine Fahy, Research Analyst and Facilitator of HASIG, Ireland and Northern Ireland's Population Health Observatory (INIsPHO)
10:30	"Neighbourhood Statistics for Northern Ireland" Fiona Johnston, Assistant Statistician, Demography & Methodology Branch, NISRA.
11:05	"Health Atlas Ireland" Howard Johnson, Head of Health Information Unit and Carmel Cullen, Health Atlas Project Manager, Population Health Division, Health Services Executive.
11:35	"Small areas in the Republic of Ireland" Martin Charlton, Senior Research Associate, National Centre for Geocomputation, NUI Maynooth.
12.05	Discussion
12:30	Lunch

RSVP to Lindi Gatchell (email lindi.gatchell@publichealth.ie or phone: +353 (0)1 478 6300)
or Leah Friend (email: leah.friend@publichealth.ie or phone +44 (0)28 90 648494)
Further information can also be found on our websites:
www.publichealth.ie and www.inispho.org

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