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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: 20 January 2010
Towards the development of a resource allocation model for primary, continuing and community care in the health services. Volume 1: Executive Summary
This study was conducted by a research team lead by Professor Anthony Staines at DCU and was commissioned by the HRB and HSE. The report of this study proposes a resource allocation model for the Irish health services based on the principle that each Irish resident should be provided with access to health services funded...
Published: 20 January 2010
Towards the development of a resource allocation model for primary, continuing and community care in the health services. Volume 2: Technical Report
This study was conducted by a research team lead by Professor Anthony Staines at DCU and was commissioned by the HRB and HSE. The report of this study proposes a resource allocation model for the Irish health services based on the principle that each Irish resident should be provided with access to health services funded...
Published: 20 December 2009
Projecting the impact of demographic change on the demand for and delivery of health care in Ireland
Health and health care are particularly sensitive to the size and make-up of the population. Increasing life expectancy in Ireland has resulted in an increasing elderly population, who require both more health care, on average, than younger people and a different combination of services. Population ageing is not the only...
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: 31 July 2008
The Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003: Some implications for public health and medical research
This discussion document examines some of the legal and practice ramifications of the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 for public health and medical research. This document covers:
- Chapter 1: The general issues of law that pertain to privacy and confidentiality in relation to medical information. ...
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: 11 May 2008
Making an impact - The economic and social benefits of HRB-funded research
This report, prepared for the Health Research Board (HRB), examines the wider impacts of eight HRB-funded grants from the early and mid-1990s. These impacts are identified using a case study approach, built on the payback framework for research evaluation. The report then considers the economic repercussions of these wider...
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: 11 January 2007
Primary Care R&D in Ireland
This report was prepared in response to a request to the HRB in early 2006 from the Association of University Departments of General Practice in Ireland (AUDGPI) to commission an independent report on research and development in primary care in Ireland. This report was commissioned by the Health Research Board of Ireland....
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: 22 December 2005
National Physical and Sensory Disability Database Committee annual report 2004
No lay summary available at this time.
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