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Utilisation of healthcare by immigrant adults relative to the host population: Evidence from Ireland
Journal of Migration and Health, 2022 Objective: While there is a broad consensus that barriers to access in the utilisation of healthcare exist for immigrants in the US, European evidence exploring this issue paints a mixed picture, with studies from a variety of European jurisdictions ...
Peter Barlow +2 more
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Migrants and healthcare: Investigating patient mobility among migrants in Ireland [PDF]
Health and Place, 2011 Drawing on detailed interviews with 60 recent migrants to Ireland, we discuss the extent and nature of patient mobility. The paper is framed by the typology of patient mobility outlined by Glinos et al. (2010), which highlights patient motivation and funding. We pay particular attention to four key areas: availability of health care for migrants living
Mary Gilmartin, Bettina Migge
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Healthcare not airfare! Art, abortion and political agency in Ireland [PDF]
Gender, Place, and Culture, 2019 Ireland’s near-total abortion ban was, in effect, a policy of offshoring abortions. Before the May 2018 vote to repeal it, the 8th Amendment allowed for conservative and nationalist groups to celeb...
Sydney Calkin
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Drivers and Facilitators of HIV-Related Stigma in Healthcare Settings in Ireland
AIDS and BehaviorAbstract People living with HIV who experience stigma in healthcare settings are at increased risk for engaging in health avoidance behaviours, suboptimal adherence to antiretroviral therapy, and viral non-suppression. HIV-related stigma erodes trust between patients and healthcare providers, thereby undermining both individual and public ...
Elena Vaughan, András Kolto
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ESC Heart Failure, 2021 Aims Guidelines support the role of B‐type natriuretic peptide (BNP) and amino‐terminal pro‐BNP (NT‐proBNP) for risk stratification of patients in programmes to prevent heart failure (HF).
Claire Sweeney +10 more
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A gardening and woodwork group in mental health: a step towards recovery [PDF]
Irish Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2021 Purpose – This paper aims to evaluate the impact of an eight-week gardening and woodwork group programme on individuals’ recovery goals in an adult community mental health setting.
Róisín Sinnott, Maria Rowlís
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Patient Disposition and Clinical Outcome After Referral to a Dedicated TAVI Clinic
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2020 Introduction: Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is the standard of care for the majority of patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS) at excessive-, high- and intermediate-surgical risk. A proportion of patients referred for TAVI
Miroslawa Gorecka +19 more
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Heart failure virtual consultation: caters for frailer, multimorbid and remote patients
Open Heart, 2023 Background: The heart failure (HF) virtual consultation (VC) is an eHealth tool for delivery of peer-to-peer specialist advice to general practitioners (GPs) to discuss HF diagnosis/management. We aim to investigate the impact of the VC service on onward
Mark Ledwidge +7 more
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Perinatal mental healthcare in Northern Ireland: challenges and opportunities [PDF]
Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2021 AbstractPerinatal mental health is a vital component of public mental health. The perinatal period represents the time in a woman’s life when she is at the highest risk of developing new-onset psychiatric disorders or relapse of an existing mental illness. Optimisation of maternal mental health in the perinatal period is associated with both short- and
D. Mongan +4 more
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 The vagus nerve is the longest nerve in the human body, providing afferent information about visceral sensation, integrity and somatic sensations to the CNS via brainstem nuclei to subcortical and cortical structures.
Helena Dolphin +8 more
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