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Published: 10 November 2022
Impact of community water fluoridation on systemic health excluding oral health. An evidence review
Community water fluoridation was introduced in Ireland in 1964 as a public health measure to prevent tooth decay. It is important for policymakers to keep up to date with the international research on the effects of community water fluoridation, so that the benefits and possible harms are known.
Publication (PDF, 3 MB) Published: 23 May 2022
Promoting workplace health and well-being through culture change. An evidence review.
Under the auspices of Healthy Ireland, the Department of Health is leading the development of the National Healthy Workplace Framework in partnership with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. The framework aims to drive engagement and identify effective approaches to health improvement in all...
Published: 15 March 2022
Management of non-cavitated and cavitated caries in primary, permanent, and mixed dentition. An evidence review
The purpose of this overview of reviews is to provide evidence to assist with the development of clinical guidelines on the management of non-cavitated and cavitated caries in primary and permanent teeth. Cavitated caries include caries in both crown and root of the tooth.
Caries...
Published: 09 February 2022
Gambling in the Republic of Ireland: Results from the 2019–20 National Drug and Alcohol Survey
This report presents the findings from the 2019–20 National Drug and Alcohol Survey (NDAS) on the prevalence of gambling and problem gambling in the general population in Ireland. While the main objective of the 2019–20 NDAS was to determine the prevalence and patterns of drug use (including alcohol and...
Published: 30 July 2021
Linking care bands to resource allocation for home support and long-term residential care. An evidence review
Many different reimbursement systems exist for providers offering healthcare to service users in their homes or residential settings. Under case mix classification systems, service users are sorted into “care bands”, which group together service users with similar levels of care needs. Funding and resources are then...
Published: 28 July 2021
Reablement in the home for people aged 65 years and over: components, effectiveness, and influencing factors. An evidence review
Reablement services help older people accommodate illness or disability by helping them to learn or re-learn skills necessary for daily living. They are typically provided for a period of 6-12 weeks, and during this period they seek to enable older people to be as independent as possible in their day-to-day lives. The...
Published: 30 March 2021
Evidence review of drug treatment services for people who are homeless and use drugs
People who are homeless have complex and challenging lives. They tend to have worse physical and mental health, and are more likely to report problem substance use, than the general population. Substance use is more prevalent among people who are homeless than in the general population, and providing support services and...
Published: 24 February 2021
Housing with Support for Older People. An evidence review
Housing with support is purpose-built, non-institutional accommodation where older people have their own front door and where support or care services are available. The implementation of housing with support for older people is rapidly expanding, particularly as life expectancy is increasing throughout the world. This...
Published: 12 October 2020
Electronic cigarette and smoking cessation. An evidence review
This systematic evidence review assessed the efficacy and safety of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and heat-not-burn products in helping people who smoke to achieve abstinence at 24 or 26 and 52 weeks using randomised controlled trials (RCTs). Seven RCTs met the inclusion criteria for efficacy of e-cigarettes in helping...
Published: 12 October 2020
Harms and benefits of e-cigarettes and heat-not-burn tobacco products. A literature map
This mapping exercise describes the nature and extent of the peer-reviewed literature on the public health harms and benefits of e-cigarettes and heat-not-burn tobacco products to the human population. The authors identified 388 papers eligible for inclusion in the map, 361 reporting the harms and benefits of e-cigarettes,...
Published: 12 October 2020
Electronic cigarette use and tobacco cigarette smoking initiation in adolescents. An evidence review
This systematic review of longitudinal cohort studies aimed to explore whether electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use by adolescents in Europe and North America, who had never smoked conventional tobacco cigarettes (tobacco cigarettes) at baseline, was associated with subsequent initiation of tobacco cigarette...
Published: 14 July 2020
Infectious disease legislation – legislation overview and lessons learned. An evidence review
The aim of this evidence review was to identify countries that had implemented new overarching public health legislation for infectious diseases, to identify the legislation they enacted, and to identify lessons learned from national experiences of introducing new legislation.
This evidence review was designed as a...
Published: 05 June 2020
Measures to reduce the clinical need for dental amalgam. An evidence review
International binding agreements oblige signatories, including Ireland, to reduce their use of mercury to protect the environment. In response, the Irish Government need to phase out the use of dental amalgam by 2030. The aim of this evidence review was to examine factors relevant to phasing out amalgam and consider...
Published: 28 November 2019
An evaluation of HRB investment in health research leaders
Since 2004, the HRB has invested €37.9 million to support the development of leaders in research in both the academic and clinical environments through the Research Leader Awards in Population Health and Health Services Research (RLA in PHHSR) and the Clinician Scientist Awards (CSA).
This evaluation was conducted by...
Published: 29 August 2019
Review of clinical research infrastructure in Ireland
This report presents the outcomes of a review of HRB’s investment in clinical research infrastructures in Ireland conducted in 2018. The aim of the review was to generate appropriate evidence on current strengths, synergies, gaps, duplications and needs in Ireland's clinical research infrastructures, either those funded...
Published: 21 August 2019
Out-of-hours specialist and generalist palliative care service provision. An evidence review
Inadequate community supports and deficiencies in access to services outside of regular office hours have been linked to poor outcomes for patients with life-limiting illness. Policy-makers, researchers, providers, patients, and carers in Ireland have all identified out-of-hours care as a key deficit in current service...
Published: 15 August 2019
Regional health organisations. An evidence review
Regional health organisations have been implemented in health systems throughout the world as a means of ensuring that health services meet local needs. The aim of this evidence review was to investigate the impact of introducing a regionalised healthcare system and to determine the key barriers to and facilitators of the...
Published: 01 August 2019
Treatment services for people with co-occurring substance use and mental health problems. A rapid realist synthesis
The scope of this rapid realist review was developed through a high-level review of relevant literature and early engagement of knowledge users in Ireland. The Health Research Board (HRB) proposed three research questions to guide the rapid realist review. Keeping in line with the realist approach, the research team carried...
Published: 01 August 2019
Vaccine injury redress programmes. An evidence review
The aim of this review of vaccine injury redress programmes in 11 jurisdictions was to investigate the association between design features of the programmes and operating costs, timely access to compensation, number of applicants, and the volume and costs of awards. The databases MEDLINE, CINAHL, Scopus, Web of Science,...
Published: 11 April 2019
Healthy workplace tools in five countries. An evidence review
This information review, undertaken on behalf of the Department of Health, informs the National Healthy Workplace Framework and implementation plan and will contribute to the business case for healthy workplace programmes. Five anglophone countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Scotland and the USA) were included...
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