2 Sep 2010

The programme for the 25th All-Ireland Social Medicine Meeting is now available.

Professor Alun Evans, Epidemiology Research Group, Centre for Public Health, QUB will give the keynote speech. 

The scientific programme consists of oral and poster presentations.  The wide variety of topics will include the burden of chronic conditions across the island, attributable mortality of alcohol, mulitilevel analysis of multi-vehicle road traffic collisions etc.

Access the full programme here

2 Sep 2010

A new study has found that Traveller men now live on average 15 years less than men in the general population. Traveller women  live on average 11.5 years less than women in the general population.  The All Ireland Traveller Health Study found that deaths from respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases and suicides are more markedly increased in Travellers compared to the general population.

26 Aug 2010

The Annual Scientific Conference for the Society for Social Medicine will be heldn at Queen's University Belfast, from Monday 6 to Wednesday 8 September 2010.

It will include oral presentations and poster presentations on a wide variety of  topics including unemployment and health, mental health, health policy and the provision of services, social inequalties inn health, life course epidemiology, as well as diabetes, coronary heart disease and cancer. 

25 Aug 2010

Health Analysts' Special Interest Group Seminar - Increasing life expectancy on the island: healthy years or just extra years?

5 Aug 2010

Males (and females who are prepared to 'dress as males') are invited to take part in one of a series of runs being organised by the Men’s Health Forum in Ireland (MHFI). This event is an extension of MHFI’s celebration of International Men’s Health Week 2010. During this week, men in Ireland were called upon to “Get Up. Get Out. Get Going!” and to increase their level of physical activity.

30 Jul 2010

‘Health Catalogue’ Published by Health Information and Quality Authority

The Health Information and Quality Authority today published a comprehensive catalogue of health information sources. The catalogue will increase awareness about the purpose and content of these sources and how the data can be accessed. The publication of the catalogue will also identify any gaps or inconsistencies in health information.

27 Jul 2010

Dear colleagues,

15 Jul 2010

On June 9^th, 2010 the Institute of Public Health in conjunction with the HSE hosted the inaugural “Quality Improvement, Patient Safety and knowledge Integration in Health Services” Seminar which was held at Pearse Street Library in Dublin.

25 Jun 2010

Inside this Issue

14 Jun 2010

Prof. James Sallis, Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University and Director of Active Living Research shared his experience of working to implement policy and practice change in the USA on improving levels of physical activity.  Prof Sallis has developed an extensive programme of work looking at the policy and environmental influences on physical activity, nutrition and obesity.  As Director of Active Living Research his work contributes to the prevention of childhood obesity in low income and high-risk communities.