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Published: 02 June 2021
NASS annual report 2020 - disability service use and need
This report provides:
- A profile of the 36,649 people with a disability reviewed on NASS in 2020;
- Details of the HSE disability-funded services currently availed of, and those required now or within the next five years.
Supplementary reports on service users with an intellectual...
Published: 29 September 2020
NASS bulletin 2019 – disability service use and need
This bulletin, along with the two supplementary bulletins, presents the inaugural findings of data from the National Ability Supports System (NASS). It provides a profile of the 22,434 people with a disability registered on the system in 2019 as well as details of the disability-funded services currently availed of...
Published: 19 December 2019
Irish Psychiatric Units and Hospitals Census 2019. Main Findings
This report presents findings from the tenth national psychiatric census of patients in psychiatric units and hospitals, the latest in a series of censuses first carried out in 1963. The census is a count of all patients resident in psychiatric units and hospitals operating within the provisions of the Mental Health Act...
Published: 18 December 2018
Health Research in Ireland - A study of activity from 2011 to 2015 using the Health Research Classification System
This study examines funding awards based on the type of research conducted and the disease area of interest. It uses the United Kingdom (UK) Health Research Classification System (HRCS).
Seven national funding agencies that manage research programmes provided data for this analysis. These were, Enterprise Ireland...
Published: 29 March 2017
Bibliometric analysis of research publication output supported by the Health Research Board (2013 - 2016)
This report presents the results of a bibliometric study of peer reviewed publications fully or partially funded by the Health Research Board (HRB). The bibliometric analysis for this study was commissioned from CWTS Leiden, a world-leader in this area.
The results of that analysis were compared, where possible, to a...
Published: 20 December 2016
Irish Psychiatric Units and Hospitals Census 2016. Main Findings
This report presents findings from the ninth national psychiatric census of patients in psychiatric units and hospitals, the latest in a series of censuses first carried out in 1963. The census is a count of all patients resident in psychiatric units and hospitals operating within the provisions of the Mental Health Act...
Published: 28 April 2014
Irish Psychiatric Units and Hospitals Census 2013
This report presents data on all patients resident in psychiatric units and hospitals operating within the provisions of the Mental Health Act 2001 (Department of Health and Children 2001) at midnight on 31 March 2013. It is the eighth national psychiatric census of patients in psychiatric units and hospitals.
...Published: 04 March 2014
Bibliometric analysis of HRB-supported publications 2000-12
This report was commissioned by the Health Research Board (HRB) which contracted Thomson Reuters (Evidence) to conduct a bibliometric analysis of HRB-supported publications between 2000 and 2012.
HRB-supported publications were matched to the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge and supplemented...
Published: 26 November 2013
Irish Psychiatric Units and Hospitals Census 2013 Bulletin
This bulletin is a synopsis of data from the eighth national census of Irish psychiatric units and hospitals, carried out on 31 March 2013.
Published: 25 July 2011
Irish Psychiatric Units and Hospitals Census 2010
This report presents data on all patients resident in psychiatric units and hospitals operating within the provisions of the Mental Health Act 2001 (Department of Health and Children 2001) at midnight on 31 March 2010. It is the seventh national psychiatric census of patients in psychiatric units and hospitals.
...Published: 29 July 2010
The identification of research priorities for therapy professions in Ireland - summary report
The therapy professions make up a significant and growing proportion of the health-care workforce in Ireland. In December 2008, the Therapy Advisory Unitof theDepartment of Health and Children published A Research Strategy for the Therapy Professions (DoHC, 2008b). One of its strategic...
Published: 29 July 2010
The identification of research priorities for therapy professions in Ireland - main report
The therapy professions make up a significant and growing proportion of the health-care workforce in Ireland. In December 2008, the Therapy Advisory Unitof theDepartment of Health and Children published A Research Strategy for the Therapy Professions (DoHC, 2008b). One of its strategic...
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 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 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: 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: 19 July 2007
A bibliometric study of Irish health research in an international context
The study is based on a quantitative analysis of scientic articles published in journals and serials processed for the internet version of the Science Citation Index and associated indices, the Web of Science. It assesses the publication output and impact of Ireland-based health researchers by using bibliometric...
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: 19 December 2006
Irish Psychiatric Units and Hospitals Census 2006
The psychiatric units and hospitals census was carried out on 31 March 2006. The overall statistics revealed that:
- Males accounted for more than half (55%) of all residents on census night.
- Two thirds of patients on census night were single, 18% were married, 7% were widowed and 1% were divorced....
Published: 19 September 2002
Irish Psychiatric Units and Hospitals Census 2001
This report presents findings from the national psychiatric census of patients in psychiatric units and hospitals, the latest in a series of censuses first carried out in 1963. The census is a count of all patients resident in psychiatric units and hospitals operating within the provisions of the Mental Health Act 2001,...
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