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Smokers and ex-smokers by sex and age-group 2015/16

This information has been produced from the health survey Northern Ireland and issued 19/12/2016. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (Northern Ireland) Statistical reports, DoH statistics and research, Department of Health commissione ...

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Smoking prevalence by sex and deprivation quintile 2010/11-2015/16

This information has been produced from the health survey Northern Ireland and issued 13/12/2016. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (Northern Ireland) Statistical reports, DoH statistics and research, Department of Health commissione ...

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Core tables 2015- Supporting the Director of Public Health Annual Report 2016

These Core Tables for 2015 are published in support of the Director of Public Health Annual Report for 2016 which will be published in June 2017. Public Health Agency Health Services These Core Tables for 2015 are published in support of the Director of P ...

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Tables from health survey Northern Ireland

Tables outlining: adult and child BMI levels, the foods people eat on most days of the week and fruit & vegetable intake, the amount of physical activity undertaken per week and sedentary behaviour, knowledge & awareness of sexual health issues, i ...

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Acute episode based activity downloadable data 2015/16

Acute episode-based activity statistics are available in Excel format for download. This set of publications presents information on acute, episode-based activity at health and social care trusts in Northern Ireland. It details key information on all ac ...

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Acute episode based activity 2015/16

Acute episode-based activity statistics present information on acute, episode-based activity at health and social care trusts in Northern Ireland across four volumes. This set of publications details key information on all activity and provides breakdown ...

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2015/16 raw disease prevalence trend data for Northern Ireland

This bulletin presents frequency distributions of disease prevalence across GP practices in reporting year in question. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (Northern Ireland) Statistical reports, DoH statistics and research, GP activit ...

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Audiology completed waits 2015/16

These tables present information from the health and social care (HSC) board on completed waits for people waiting to be fitted with a hearing aid. Figures are presented regionally, by HSC trust and by weeks waiting. Department of Health, Social Services ...

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Pharmacy incident survey

This Pharmacy Incident Survey form allows the accurate assimilation of data pertaining to robberies in phamacies throughout Northern Ireland. DHSSPS would ask pharmacies that have been affected to complete the form below for all such incidents dating from ...

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Acute episode based activity downloadable data 2012/13

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Acute episode based activity downloadable data 2013/14

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Acute episode based activity 2012/13

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Acute episode based activity 2013/14

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Acute episode based activity downloadable data 2014/15

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Tables from health survey Northern Ireland

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Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS)

Central Statistics Office Demography, Employment, Education, Income, Housing, Household, Expenditure, Financial, Economic Survey to produce quarterly labour force estimates and occasional reports on special social topics, providing estimates on short-term ...

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WHO Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initivative (COSI):School Return Form

WHO Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) Child health, Obesity, Overweight, Weight management, Nutrition, Eating habits, Demographics COSI is led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and is part of a pan-European initiative. It is the first ...

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WHO Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initivative (COSI): Examiner Record Form

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WHO Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initivative (COSI): Family Survey

WHO Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) Child health, Obesity, Overweight, Weight management, Nutrition, Eating habits COSI is led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and is part of a pan-European initiative. It is the first standardised, ...

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Equal Access Survey

Equal Access Survey of Entrants to Higher Education Education, Equal access, Equality, Disability, Ethnicity, Socio- economic factor Each year, as part of the student registration process, 28 publicly funded institutions gather information through an ‘Equ ...

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25 May 2018

IPH presents results of a study of the lifetime cost of childhood obesity on the island of Ireland at the Summer Scientific Meeting 2018

The Faculty of Public Health's Annual Summer Scientific Meeting was held on 30th & 31st of May 2018 in Dublin. Professor Kevin P. Balanda from the IPH presented the results from the 'Lifetime financial costs of childhood obesity/overweight in Ireland and Northern Ireland'. The JANPA/safefood project estimated that the obesity/overweight in the island's 2015 childhood population was associated with lifetime excess financial costs of €7.1 (in 2015 values). Direct health care costs accounted for approximately 25% of this total costs. The biggest cost category was lost productivity due to premature death that accounted for approximately 60% of total excess lifetime costs on the island. The study highlights gender differences and North/South differences in the magnitude of the cost categories.

Contact Prof Balanda at kevin.balanda@publichealth.ie

JANPA http://www.janpa.eu/

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Faculty of Public Health Medicine

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25 May 2018

IPH contributes to the JANPA Skills Building Workshop to ECO2018

The ECO2018 Congress on Obesity was held from 23rd to 26th of May 2018 in Vienna, Austria. Professor Kevin P. Balanda from the IPH contributed a session to the JANPA Workshop. The brief session looked at mobilising data and research to estimate the lifetime costs of childhood obesity using the JANPA costing model. It outlined the data and research required, described some of the challenges and gave tips for overcoming these challenges. It ended with a brief overview of the opportunities that exist for countries in conducting such study in their country.

Contact Prof Balanda at kevin.balanda@publichealth.ie

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JANPA

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25 May 2018

IPH presents results of a study of the lifetime cost of childhood obesity on the island of Ireland to ECO2018

The ECO2018 Congress on Obesity was held from 23rd to 26th of May 2018 in Vienna, Austria. Professor Kevin P. Balanda from the IPH delivered an invited talk to the Congress on the 'Lifetime financial costs of childhood obesity/overweight in Ireland and Northern Ireland. The JANPA/safefood project estimated that the obesity/overweight in the island's 2015 childhood population was associated with lifetime excess financial costs of €7.1 (in 2015 values). Direct health care costs accounted for approximately 25% of this total costs. The biggest cost category was lost productivity due to premature death that accounted for approximately 60% of total excess lifetime costs on the island.

Contact Prof Balanda at kevin.balanda@publichealth.ie

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JANPA

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21 May 2018

Poster "Lifetime financial cost of childhood obesity on the island of Ireland" presented at the 6th ASOI Annual Conference

The 2018 meeting was held on the 14th of May 2018 in association with the Division of Population Health Sciences at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. This year the focus was on the environmental determinants of food consumption and obesity.

Professor Kevin P. Balanda from the Institute of Public health was delighted to present a poster on the Lifetime financial cost of childhood obesity on the island of Ireland.

For more information on the conference, click here.

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To find out more information about IPH work on obesity, visit the Health Well Obesity Hub.

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14 May 2018

International Men’s Health Week 2018

International Men’s Health Week (MHW) will run from Monday 11th until Sunday 17th June 2018. It is celebrated in many European countries, as well as in the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

The overall aims of MHW are to:

Heighten awareness of preventable health problems for males of all ages
Support men and boys to engage in healthier lifestyle choices / activities
Encourage the early detection and treatment of health difficulties in males.

Everyone is encouraged to work together to do at least one small practical thing to improve their own health and the health of men across the island. People in Ireland are also being asked to do something out of this world.

Read more about how to get involved here.

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8 May 2018

ASOI Conference 2018

The Association for the Study of Obesity on the Island of Ireland (ASOI) will hold its 2018 Annual Conference on May 14th 2018 in association with the Division of Population Health Sciences at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The conference will take in the main campus of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2.

This year the focus is on the Environmental determinants of food consumption and obesity. Send your abstract to be in with a chance to win the ASOI Award for best submitted abstract (see abstract submission details below).

Online registration for the conference is available here: asoi.web.ie/events/

ASOI 2018 Programme

ASOI 2018 Registration Form

ASOI 2018 Call for Abstracts

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26 April 2018

Society for Social Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting & European Congress of Epidemiology 2019

The Society for Social Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting (the UK’s leading population health conference) takes place in Glasgow in 2018. It is being organised by colleagues from the University of Glasgow and the wider public health community in Glasgow.

The SSM 62^nd Annual Scientific Meeting is a three-day academic and professional conference with a mix of high quality, peer-reviewed oral presentations, posters and workshops and ample opportunity for networking. Two keynote lectures will be delivered by Professor Kate Hunt (the Cochrane Lecture) and Professor Mel Bartley (the Pemberton Lecture). Oral presentations run in parallel and are organised by topics, including Health Inequalities, Health Services Research, Lifecourse, Neighbourhoods & Communities, Mental Health & Wellbeing.

More information can be found on the Conference website.

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18 April 2018

IPH Dublin Office has moved

The IPH Dublin staff team have moved to their new office in Vistatec House, 700 South Circular Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8.

The move took place on Wednesday 18th April 2018.

Our phone number and email address will stay the same.

IPH Dublin Office has moved

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10 April 2018

Joint Action on Nutrition and Physical Activity (JANPA)

WP4| COST OF CHILDHOOD OBESITY

The overall aim of this EU project was to contribute to halting the rise of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents by 2020. JANPA stands for “Joint Action on Nutrition and Physical Activity”.

Considerable work has been done on the healthcare costs of adult obesity. Impacts of childhood obesity, however, are rarely included in such obesity costing studies. More work was necessary to understand the impacts of childhood obesity as well as exploring non-healthcare (societal) costs in more detail. JANPA Work Package 4 starts to fill this gap by “developing the evidence-based economic rationale for action on childhood obesity”.

The technical objectives of Work Package 4 are:

to describe the lifetime impact and cost of childhood obesity
to assess the benefits of reducing childhood obesity by 1% and 5%.

This was attempted in seven European countries.

Professor Kevin Balanda (kevin.balanda@publichealth.ie) led JANP WP4. The JANPA WP4 costing model was implemented in an adaptation of the UKHF’s existing software.

JANPA WP4 was a very challenging project and its final deliverables are now available. In particular, final figures for Ireland and Northern Ireland are presented in Deliverable D4.6.

JANPA

JANPA WP4

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13 February 2018

'Murtall' the new term for obesity in the Irish Language

The Association for the Study of Obesity on the island of Ireland (ASOI) has successfully changed the word for obesity in the Irish language. ‘Otracht’ was previously the Irish term for obesity. The English translation of ‘otracht’ is critical, negative and derogatory.

“Language is important. The words we choose matter” says Dr Jean O’Connell, Chair of ASOI. “People living with certain stigmatised diseases say that coping with the stigma of the disease is harder than coping with the disease itself. We need to change the way that we talk about overweight and obesity, in every language”.

Niamh Arthurs (Public Health and Clinical Nutritionist, ASOI Education role) addressed this concern with Foras Na Gaeilge. They advised Ms Arthurs to bring the case to the translation section of the Oireachtas in Leinster House. Following discussion, they informed the ASOI that the word ‘murtall’ will be used instead of ‘otracht’ in legislation in Ireland and they will also advise European institutions to use the term ‘murtall’ in future. Foras Na Gaeilge also stated that they would recommend general use of the term ‘murtall’.

'Murtall' the new term for obesity in the Irish Language

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