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Making Chronic Conditions Count: Hypertension, Stroke, Coronary Heart Disease and Diabetes. Executive Summary
Posted March 15th, 2010 by arlene.mckayReport
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Chronic conditions are responsible for a significant proportion of early deaths. They reduce quality of life in many of the adults living with them, represent substantial financial costs to patients and the health and social care system, and cause a significant loss of productivity to the economy.
IPH response to the Environmental Protection Agency Consultation on Stategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Process Checklist
Posted March 9th, 2010 by arlene.mckayConsultation responses
Consultation responses
The full IPH response is below:
IPH response to EU Commission consultation on EU role in global health
Posted March 9th, 2010 by arlene.mckayConsultation responses
Consultation responses
The European Commission launced a public consultation iin October 2009 on stakeholder views regarding the rationale, scope and strategic objectives for an EU role in global health. Access the EU Commission issues paper
IPH response to Department of Environment (NI) Planning Policy Statement 7
Posted March 5th, 2010 by arlene.mckayConsultation responses
Consultation responses
IPH made the following response to the Department of the Environment (NI) on the Draft Addendum to Planning Policy Statement 7.
Access the Draft Addendum to Planning Policy Statement 7
The IPH response in full:
IPH Submission to the Central Statistics Office (ROI)
Posted March 5th, 2010 by arlene.mckayConsultation responses
Consultation responses
The following submission was made by IPH to Central Statistics Office (ROI) on the content of the questionnaire for the 2011 Census of Population.
Introduction
The Institute of Public Health in Ireland
Making Chronic Conditions Count: Hypertension, Stroke, Coronary Heart Disease, Diabetes.
Posted February 11th, 2010 by suzanne.kirkReport
INIsPHO Team
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Chronic conditions are responsible for a significant proportion of early deaths. They reduce quality of life in many of the adults living with them, represent substantial financial costs to patients and the health and social care system, and cause a significant loss of productivity to the economy.
DETERMINE Working document #4 'Economic arguments for addressing social determinants of health inequalities'
Posted January 20th, 2010 by arlene.mckayReport
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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.
IPH response to Department for Regional Development Regional Transportation Strategy Review
Posted December 21st, 2009 by arlene.mckayConsultation responses
Consultation responses
Department for Regional Development (DRD) launched a review into the current Regional Transportation Strategy Review in 2009. Travel behaviour can make a significant contribution to physical activity levels and subsequent risk of poor health including conditions such as obesity. DRD can play a key role in tackling obesity in Northern Ireland through the Regional Transportation Strategy. IPH submitted the below response.
Annual Update on Fuel Poverty and Health (December 2009)
Posted December 3rd, 2009 by arlene.mckayReport
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This Annual Update on Fuel Poverty (December 2009) follows the All-Ireland Policy Paper on Fuel Poverty and Health published in 2007 and the Annual Update on Fuel Poverty (December 2008). It details develoments on the island of Ireland in policy and research, and activities of the statutory and voluntary sector.
Health Impact Assessment Guidance 2009
Posted October 23rd, 2009 by arlene.mckayReport
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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 friendly and practical framework to guide policy-makers and practitioners in undertaking HIA. All HIA tools contained in this guidance and further information on HIA may be found at http://www.publichealth.ie/hia








