01 Dec 2009 The Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH) is a partner in the European project DETERMINE, building on its previous involvement in the Closing the Gap project in 2004-2006. In Year 2 the DETERMINE project focused on identifying and exploring economic arguments to support action on social determinants of health inequalities. Working…
23 Oct 2009 This guidance manual explains what Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is and the stages involved in conducting it. It has been revised and updated based on the experience of HIA practitioners and includes new tools which have been developed to assist each step of the HIA process. It aims to provide a user…
08 Oct 2009 Recent IPH Highlights detailed in this document include: Celebrating 10 years of North South working Tackling obesity Social Determinants of Health Health impacts of education: a review Linking research and policy Fuel poverty and health Building capacity Highlighting differences in health and wellbeing across the island Download http://www.publichealth.ie/sites/default/files/documents/files/iph_highlights.p…
02 Oct 2009 This report presents a North/South profile of physical and mental health, lifestyles and the experience of health services. It was commissioned by the Department of Health and Children and compares health and lifestyles in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland using the population surveys Slán 2007 and NIHSWS 2005. Some of…