Browsing by Subject "Health Care"
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A Good News Story About Irish Health Care
(ESRI, 2011)Life expectancy for older people in Ireland has been increasing steadily since the 1980s. Despite this, Irish life expectancies for the over 65s lagged seriously behind the EU average as recently as the mid 1990s. But Irish ... -
Primary medical care in Irish prisons
(2010)Background: An industrial dispute between prison doctors and the Irish Prison Service (IPS) took place in 2004. Part of the resolution of that dispute was that an independent review of prison medical and support services ... -
Provision of clinical pharmacy services during the COVID-19 pandemic: experiences of pharmacists from 16 European countries
(2020)Background: The pharmacy profession has an important role in the frontline healthcare response to COVID-19 across all settings. Objective: This study sought to explore the views and experiences of clinical pharmacists in ... -
Public and Private Utilisation of In-Patient Beds in Irish Acute Public Hospitals
(ESRI, 2011)Health care systems in many developed countries have services financed and provided by both public and private sectors. In Ireland, though, the public/private mix is atypical: a private patient can be treated in an acute ... -
Resource Allocation, Financing and Sustainability in the Health Sector
(ESRI, 2010)The focus on acute, episodic care in the conventional health-care model fails to provide adequately for changing health-care needs arising from increased longevity and increasing prevalence of chronic disease. Integrated ... -
Shared care across the interface between primary and specialty care in management of long term conditions
(2017)Background Shared care has been used in the management of many chronic conditions with the assumption that it delivers better care than primary or specialty care alone; however, little is known about the effectiveness of ... -
Towards a Better and Sustainable Health Care System Resource Allocation and Financing Issues for Ireland
(ESRI, 15/10/2010)The key to any efficient and sustainable system is coherence ? the various elements must lead in the same direction so that actions do not conflict and mixed signals are avoided. In the context of a complex system, such ...