Browsing by Subject "Health policy"
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Baseline study of Community Pharmacy Practice in Ireland - report
(Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, 2011) -
Contexts and mechanisms that promote access to healthcare for populations experiencing homelessness: a realist review
(2021)Objective The objective of this study was to identify and understand the health system contexts and mechanisms that allow for homeless populations to access appropriate healthcare when needed. Design A realist ... -
Council of Europe Resolution on the Implementation of Pharmaceutical Care—A Step Forward in Enhancing the Appropriate Use of Medicines and Patient-Centred Care
(2024)Pharmaceutical care was proposed to address morbidity and mortality associated with medicine-related problems. It utilises the pharmacist’s expertise in medicines, their relationship with the patient and cooperation with ... -
An Evaluation of the End-of-Life Programme
(2012)This executive summary will explain the remit of the evaluation undertaken and its associated methods; review some of the key findings and recommendations that emerged; and explain what the reader will find in the report’s ... -
Health and social care near the end of life: Can policies reduce costs and improve outcomes?
(WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2021) -
Health services : the implications of demographic change
(National Economic and Social CouncilIE, 1983) -
Hospital Pharmacy in Ireland
(Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, 2012) -
How and why do financial incentives contribute to helping people stop smoking? A realist review protocol
(2022)Introduction: Smoking is harmful to human health and programmes to help people stop smoking are key public health efforts that improve individual and population health outcomes. Research shows that financial incentives ... -
The impact of the financial crisis on the health system and health in Ireland
(: WHO/ European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2015) -
The Irish health system and the crisis: a case study in the struggle for the capacity of the Social State
(2018)Ireland’s health care system is a weak Beveridgean system with no entitlement to free care and substantial acute waiting lists. Just under half the population has voluntary private health insurance and there is a two-tier ... -
Medicines use review pilot project
(Primary Care Group, Health Service Executive (HSE), 2012) -
The National Treatment Purchase Fund ? A success for some patients yet a public policy failure?
(2019)In 2002 the Irish Government announced the establishment of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) as a means of addressing patients’ long wait times for public hospital treatment. A new health strategy published in ... -
Non-Prescription Medicinal Products containing codeine: guidance for pharmacists on safe supply to patients
(Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, 2010) -
Plain packaging of tobacco products: Lessons for the next round of implementing countries
(2020)Plain packaging addresses the obligations to implement effective packaging and labelling measures under Article 11 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and to comprehensively ban tobacco advertising, ... -
Policy analysis: Palliative care in Ireland
(2014)Palliative care for patients with advanced illness is a subject of growing importance in health services, policy and research. In 2001 Ireland became one of the first nations to publish a dedicated national palliative care ... -
Promoting universal financial protection: contracting faith-based health facilities to expand access - lessons learned from Malawi.
(2013)Background Public-private collaborations are increasingly being utilized to universalize health care. In Malawi, the Ministry of Health contracts selected health facilities owned by the main faith-based provider, the ... -
Proportion of deaths in hospital in European countries: trends and associations from panel data (2005–2017)
(2021)Background: End-of-life care attracts major policy interest. Place of death is an important metric of individual experience and health system performance. Most people prefer to die at home, but hospital is the most common ... -
Seeking online telemedicine abortion outside the jurisdiction from Ireland following implementation of telemedicine provision locally
(2022)Background Abortion was legalised in Ireland in 2019 and telemedicine provision introduced in April 2020. We examined patterns in and reasons for seeking and receiving online telemedicine abortion outside the jurisdiction ...