Browsing Public Health & Primary Care (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Development of an adjusted scan statistic for the efficient detection of road collision 'hot spots' along the road network in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2012)Road traffic collisions impose a major burden on society, thus there is a real incentive for inter-sectoral collaboration when decisions and policies are being formulated. This research is set in the context of the latest ... -
Dysphagia in solid malignancies outside the head, neck and upper gastrointestinal tract
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2019)Background Dysphagia is often associated with head, neck, and upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract cancers. It also occurs in those with solid malignancies outside anatomic swallow regions. When present, it leads to clinical ... -
Facilitating readiness for advance care planning in Ireland: Informing the design of an innovative intervention for middle aged and older people in the community
Background: Advance care planning (ACP) is a process aiming to elicit, communicate, and document future care wishes, providing mechanisms through which individual preferences can be supported. Poor and fragmented ... -
From the inside out : an idiographic account of the policy making process that produced the Irish work place smoking ban
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Centre of Health Policy and Management, 2015)This research goes inside the black box of the civil service policy making world, revealing the processes, procedures, engagements and exchanges that occur when a national policy is being developed, and identifying the ... -
Health care delivery, access and utilisation in emerging communities and urban slums of south west Nigeria
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2014)In Nigeria, over 60 percent of the population lack access to modern health care facilities. Low access and effective utilisation even where available, are affected by inadequate health workforce, low quality of care, ... -
Health insurance demand among formal sector employees in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2014)Understanding and predicting consumer preferences for alternative health insurance design packages is important for a country striving to introduce health insurance. Historically health services and health insurance ... -
Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV in the Irish prisoner population : an overview of prevalence rates and risk factors
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2002)Introduction: This thesis reports the estimated prevalence of antibodies to hepatitis B core antigen, hepatitis C virus and HIV in two distinct prison populations. -- Objective: This thesis provides a synthesised analysis ... -
How can health systems make healthcare more accessible for populations experiencing homelessness? A realist and policy analysis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2022)Problem Populations experiencing long-term homelessness and complex needs face difficulties accessing healthcare. Prior research has predominantly focused on the individual characteristics that contribute to those ... -
How Local Decision Making Works for Adaptations of Health Interventions During Scale-up: A Realist Review
Introduction: Scaling-up health interventions is a complex process with growing recognition of the need to make adaptations to interventions to address diverse contexts and populations encountered across multiple sites. ... -
Improving equity in resource allocation in the Irish health service
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2004)Health systems worldwide are moving towards making their systems more transparent and more equitable, often due to pressure from consumers. Reforms to resource allocation systems are one attempt to do this. The nature of ... -
Incorporating oral health collaborative practice into primary medical care in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2019)Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the opportunities for, and the barriers to, the integration of oral health into primary health care in Ireland, and to propose recommendations to support the development of sustainable ... -
Methodological considerations in the development of small area deprivation indices
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2007)Health inequalities exist such that people with lower incomes and poorer social conditions experience poorer health. When individual level characteristics are aggregated to an area level, the socioeconomic status or ... -
Modelling the cost-effectiveness of cancer prevention : reframing models to better match policy questions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Centre of Health Policy and Management, 2013)This thesis comprises six papers concerning methodological issues in cost- effectiveness analysis (CEA) of healthcare interventions. The unifying theme to these studies is the reframing of CEAs to better correspond to the ... -
Patient and family participation in healthcare design and delivery in a psychiatry and a type 2 diabetes service
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2019)Background: There is no consensus on the best way to include patients and family in healthcare design and delivery. This PhD aimed to develop, implement and test the feasibility of an intervention to encourage patient and ... -
Peer support in type 2 diabetes : a radomised controlled trial in primary care
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2010)Type 2 diabetes has now reached epidemic proportions in many countries. Self management programmes for type 2 diabetes have recently moved away from the traditional didactic interventions to patient empowerment and peer-led ... -
Psychosocial determinants of glycaemic control in people with type two diabetes
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2006)Whilst the number of people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes continues to rise to epidemic proportions, there has been a more moderate rise in the acknowledgement of the psychosocial factors that play a role in the treatment ... -
A qualitative study exploring policy-amenable factors influencing medical device-related patient safety from a lifecycle perspective
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2024)Thesis Title: A qualitative study exploring policy-amenable factors influencing medical device-related patient safety from a lifecycle perspective Author: Kathleen Rose Harkin Abstract Introduction: Medical devices ... -
Reducing Sedentary Behaviour in the Workplace: A Theory-led Multicomponent Intervention
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2021)There is strong evidence demonstrating that there is a relationship between greater time spent in sedentary behaviour (SB) and greater all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease mortality and incidence, type 2 diabetes ... -
The role of vitamin D and UVB on the risk and survival of oesophageal and gastric cancer
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2018)The Role of Vitamin D and UVB on the Risk and Survival of Oesophageal and Gastric Cancer By Fiona O?Sullivan Background: Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin which has many sources. Currently, there are numerous ways in ... -
Strategy Selection and Comparison in the Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Cancer Screening
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2023)Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is well-established in application to cancer screening programmes. CEAs of screening differ from analyses of therapeutic interventions as the choice of strategies for comparison is not ...