Resources
6 Jun, 2017
- IPH welcomed the opportunity to respond to the consultation on the Key Issues Consultation Paper on the transposition of EIA Directive…
1 Apr, 2017
- Smoking during pregnancy is the most significant modifiable risk factor for adverse pregnancy outcomes. Tobacco use has a long-standing…
8 Mar, 2017
- IPH welcome the opportunity to respond to the NI consultation on regulations to restrict smoking in private vehicles when children are…
10 Feb, 2017
- IPH welcomed the opportunity to respond to the NI Department for Infrastructure on the Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment)…
27 Jan, 2017
- The Department of Justice and Equality (RoI) launched a public consultation on the new National Women’s Strategy on 23 November 2016…
23 Dec, 2016
- IPH welcomed the opportunity to respond to a Department of Finance (RoI) consultation on the forthcoming sugar sweetened drinks tax in…
24 Nov, 2016
- Maternal nutrition during pregnancy influences the long-term health outcomes of both the woman and her offspring( 1 ). In the absence…
1 Nov, 2016
- IPH welcomes the commitment to address inequalities in suicide rate in Northern Ireland. Those living in the most deprived communities…
14 Oct, 2016
- In March 2016 the UK government announced its intent to introduce an industry levy on sugar sweetened drinks from April 2018. This…
21 Sep, 2016
- In June 2016, the Dáil agreed to establish a Special Committee — the Committee on the Future of Healthcare — to achieve cross-party…
20 Sep, 2016
- IPH welcomes the opportunity to respond to this Draft General Commercial Communications Code from the perspective of regulating the…
1 Sep, 2016
- Ireland has strong tobacco control legislation but must get smokers to stop if the national plan of having a smoking prevalence of 5%…
24 Aug, 2016
- The remit of the Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH) is to promote cooperation for public health between Northern Ireland and…
25 Jul, 2016
- The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) in the UK invited submissions to a consultation on food and soft drink advertising to…
1 Mar, 2016
- IPH submitted views on the Diabetes Strategic Framework Consultation in Northern Ireland in May 2016. In Northern Ireland there are 85,…
20 Feb, 2016
- The Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH) believes that contact with the criminal justice system could be turned into an opportunity for improving health and wellbeing. This is an opportunity…
15 Dec, 2015
- Although widely debated, some of the defining professional characteristics of planners appear to be competencies in co-ordination,…
1 Oct, 2015
- Smoking is the most preventable cause of premature death. As the Irish government works towards their stated goal of a ‘tobacco free…
12 Aug, 2015
- This was a scoping review of the experiences of people with inherited cardiac conditions and congenital heart disease and their…
2 Jun, 2015
- In the caregiving literature there is a common assertion that a higher level of carer stress is a critical determinant of premature…