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Published: 18 December 2013
Annual report of the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database Committee 2012
The objective of the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database (NPSDD) is to provide an overview of the specialised health and personal social service needs of people with a physical, sensory and/or speech and language disability. The report is based on monitoring current service provision and future service...
Published: 19 December 2012
Measure of Activity and Participation (MAP) - Issue 6
Activity, participation and assistive technology
This bulletin examines the types of assistive technology (AT) used and required by people with a physical and/or sensory disability in Ireland, and evaluates the relationships between AT use and levels of participation in areas of life activities,...
Published: 19 August 2012
Annual report of the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database Committee 2011
The objective of the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database (NPSDD) is to provide an overview of the specialised health and personal social service needs of people with a physical, sensory and/or speech and language disability. The report is based on monitoring current service provision and future service...
Published: 10 November 2011
Annual report of the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database Committee 2010
This document presents data from the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database (NPSDD) for 2010. The information is based on monitoring current service provision and future service requirements over a five year period as well as a demographic profile of those on the NPSDD. This year?s annual report is based on an...
Published: 19 July 2011
Measure of Activity and Participation (MAP) - Issue 5
Disability data sources in Ireland
This bulletin compares the two major data sources in Ireland that have adopted the ICF in defining disability; the National Disability Survey, 2006 and the NPSDD Measure of Activity and Participation (MAP) with a particular emphasis on activity, participation and environmental...
Published: 16 December 2010
Annual report of the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database Committee 2009
This document presents data from the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database (NPSDD) for 2008. The information is based on monitoring current service provision and future service requirements over a five year period as well as a demographic profile of those on the NPSDD.
Published: 26 January 2010
Measure of Activity and Participation (MAP) - Issue 4
Participation and ageing: the experience of people on the NPSDD
This issue of the MAP bulletin looks at participation restrictions, barriers and challenges and the WHODAS for people with a disability as they age.
Published: 15 June 2009
Annual report of the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database Committee 2008
This document presents data from the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database (NPSDD) for 2008. The information is based on monitoring current service provision and future service requirements over a five year period as well as a demographic profile of those on the NPSDD.
Published: 05 January 2009
Development of Ireland's drug strategy 2000-2007
Rather than provide a narrative of developments during the life of the National Drugs Strategy (NDS), this overview seeks to analyse the NDS as policy instrument: it explores how the NDS was designed and developed, and the strategic management processes and governance arrangements put in place to support implementation. The...
Published: 21 October 2008
Crack cocaine in the Dublin region: an evidence base for a crack cocaine strategy
Crack cocaine is produced from powder cocaine using readily available chemical agents such as ammonia or baking soda. Smoking crack is a highly efficient way of getting cocaine into the brain, making its use compulsive and difficult to control in some cases. In early 2005, a number of seizures of crack cocaine were made by...
Published: 31 May 2008
Measure of Activity and Participation (MAP) - Issue 3
The experience of people with neurological conditions
Issue 3 in the MAP bulletin series focuses on the social participation of people with neurological conditions. It highlights the specific experience of restriction in, and barriers to, participation in society for this group as well as the link between...
Published: 05 December 2007
National Physical and Sensory Disability Database Committee annual report 2007
No lay summary available at this time.
Published: 04 December 2007
Measure of Activity and Participation (MAP) - Issue 2
The World Health Organisation’s Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS)
This issue of the bulletin provides an outline of the World Health Organisation’s Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS II), one of the MAP measures. The bulletin provides an overview of functional ability, as measured by the WHODAS II,...
Published: 06 November 2007
Social reintegration as a response to drug use in Ireland
Social exclusion, in the form of homelessness and insecure accommodation, inadequate education and poor employment skills, is closely associated with problematic drug use. As a response, social reintegration has emerged as a key aspect of drug treatment and rehabilitation in order to provide responses to accommodation,...
Published: 05 December 2006
Measure of Activity and Participation (MAP) - Issue 1
An overview
This bulletin provides an overview of the MAP as a measure that has been developed using the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) which provides a holistic framework of disability. The MAP measure covers 3 main elements;...
Published: 15 October 2006
Blood-borne viral infections among injecting drug users in Ireland, 1995 to 2005
This publication includes known data on blood-borne viral infections among drug users in Ireland. There is a description of current and potential sources of such data in Ireland. The analysis presented is based on disease notifications reported to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre between 1995 and 2005 and data from...
Published: 30 May 2006
Drugs and crime in Ireland
Although the link between drug use, addiction and crime has been established by international and Irish research, identifying the precise causative connection between drugs and crime has been a primary preoccupation of many writers in this area. For the purpose of this Overview, we will review the available research...
Published: 22 December 2005
National Physical and Sensory Disability Database Committee annual report 2004
No lay summary available at this time.
Published: 20 December 2005
The illicit drug market in Ireland
The purpose of this Overview is to compile and analyse existing data sources and available research, to identify gaps in knowledge and to inform future research needs in this important area of drug policy. The study concludes the following:
• The total number of drug seizures reported in the annual reports of the...
Published: 26 September 2001
Overview of drug issues in Ireland 2000: a resource document
This publication provides an overview of issues related to drug misuse in Ireland, focusing on information available up to mid-2000. The term ‘drug misuse’, as used in this report, refers to the taking of a legal and/or illegal drug that harms the physical, mental or social well being of the individual, the group or...
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