Public Health & Primary Care: Recent submissions
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Optimisation of Healthcare Contracts: Tensions Between Standardisation and Innovation Comment on "Competition in Healthcare: Good, Bad or Ugly?".
(2015)An important determinant of health system performance is contracting. Providers often respond to financial incentives, despite the ethical underpinnings of medicine, and payers can craft contracts to influence performance. ... -
Detection and investigation of temporal clusters of congenital anomaly in Europe: seven years of experience of the EUROCAT surveillance system.
(2015)Detection and investigation of congenital anomaly clusters is one part of surveillance to detect new or changing teratogenic exposures in the population. The EUROCAT (European Surveillance of Congenital Anomalies) cluster ... -
Global Health Diplomacy, "San Francisco Values," and HIV/AIDS: From the Local to the Global.
(2015)Background San Francisco has a distinguished history as a cosmopolitan, progressive, and international city, including extensive associations with global health. These circumstances have contributed to new, interdisciplinary ... -
Development and process evaluation of an educational intervention to support primary care of problem alcohol among drug users.
(2014)Purpose - This paper describes the development and process evaluation of an educational intervention, designed to help general practitioners (GPs) identify and manage problem alcohol use among problem drug users. Desi ... -
Content analysis of newspaper reports on alcohol-related deaths
(2014)AIM: International research indicates that the role which alcohol plays in accidents tends to be understated in media reports. Evidence suggests that public support for alcohol harm reduction policies would increase if ... -
"Nobody really gets it";: a qualitative exploration of youth mental health in deprived urban areas.
(2014)Aim: To explore and describe the experience of mental health and addiction for young people living in urban deprived areas in Ireland. Method: Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 20 young adults ... -
"Managed competition" for Ireland? The single versus multiple payer debate
(2014)A persistent feature of international health policy debate is whether a single-payer or multiple-payer system can offer superior performance. In Ireland, a major reform proposal is the introduction of 'managed competition' ... -
Insights and Concerns of Patients and GPs Regarding Introduction of Universal Health Insurance in Ireland
(2015)The implementation of a universal health insurance (UHI) model is a key political policy in Ireland. The objective here was to determine the understanding of general practitioners (GPs) and patients regarding UHI, its ... -
Young people in drug treatment: their views on substance use - aetiology, trajectory, parents? role in drug use and coping skills.
(2015)Objectives: The aim of the current study was to gain insight into the process of initiation and progression to problematic use among young people who reach clinically significant levels of substance use requiring ...
