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An intensive neurorehabilitation programme with sEMG biofeedback to improve swallowing in Idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD): A feasibility study
(2023)Background: Studies suggest swallow intervention programmes that incorporate visual biofeedback and motor programming principles can improve swallowing and quality of life for people with idiopathic Parkinson's disease ... -
Swallowing Outcomes in Dysphagia in Children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Protocol for a scoping review
(2024)Background: Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a genetic neuromotor disease characterized by muscle weakness and atrophy. Among the clinical manifestations, swallowing difficulties can be associated with this disease and ... -
Encouraging adolescents participation during paediatric diabetes clinic visits: Design and development of a question prompt list intervention
(2022)Aims: To investigate adolescents’ communication with healthcare providers (HCPs) and co– design a question prompt list as one part of an intervention to increase patient participation and communication at diabetes ... -
Lost in Transition: How to Close the Care Gap for Childhood Cancer Survivors. Blog on World Cancer Day
(2022)As if growing up wasn’t hard enough, the transition from paediatric to adult care can be a particularly confusing and overwhelming experience for the survivors of childhood cancer. On World Cancer Day 2022, let’s think ... -
The coalition government's record on tax
(The Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2015)As part of its deficit reduction programme, the coalition government has made tax changes whose direct impact is to reduce borrowing by £16.4 billion in 2015---16: the net effect of £64.3 billion of tax rises and £48.0 ... -
Budget 2019: tax and welfare changes
(The Economic and Social Research Institute, 2018)In his budget delivered to the Dáil on 9 October, the Minister for Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform announced an increase in General Government expenditure for 2019 of €4.2 billion, an increase of 5.1 per cent from ... -
Housing Assistance Payment: Potential impacts on financial incentives to work
(The Economic and Social Research Institute, 2019)Since March 2017, a new income-related housing support for those with a long-term housing need called Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) has been available throughout the state. This paper examines the potential impact on ... -
Carbon taxes and compensation options
(The Economic and Social Research Institute, 2019)This paper examines the effects an increase in the Irish carbon tax would have on households’ incomes, and assesses potential options for compensating households. While a carbon tax rise would disproportionately affect ... -
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on consumption and indirect tax in Ireland
(The Economic and Social Research Institute, 2020)Using micro data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) Household Budget Survey (HBS), we assess the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on consumption and its implications for indirect tax receipts in 2020. We show that ... -
Options for increasing tax
(The Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2015)The UK’s public finances are still in a weakened state. In 2015–16, the government expects to borrow 3.6% of national income over and above the borrowing that can be expected to disappear as the economy recovers, leading ... -
Carbon taxes, poverty and compensation options
(The Economic and Social Research Institute, 2020)This paper examines how the Irish carbon tax can be raised without increasing poverty and disproportionately affecting low-income households. It shows that poverty can in fact be reduced and the lowest-income fifth of ... -
Distributional impact of tax and welfare policies: COVID-related policies and Budget 2021
(The Economic and Social Research Institute, 2020)In this article, we assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on unemployment in Ireland and estimate how family incomes have changed as a result of increased unemployment, calibrated to administrative sources for ... -
Options for raising tax revenue in Ireland
(The Economic and Social Research Institute, 2021)Future spending pressures combined with potential declines in corporation and motor tax receipts mean that significant future tax increases are likely to be needed in the years ahead. While these should be avoided until ... -
Budget 2022
(The Economic and Social Research Institute, 2021)This Article outlines and assesses changes to the tax and welfare system announced as part of Budget 2022. It first looks at the main taxation measures announced before turning to employment, education and social welfare ... -
Promoting kidney health in people with type 2 diabetes: part 2
(2023)The incidence of chronic kidney disease is increasing internationally with many risk factors for chronic kidney disease also being risk factors for type 2 diabetes. Nurses should use primary, secondary and tertiary prevention ... -
Promoting kidney health in people with type 2 diabetes: part 1
(2023)The incidence of chronic kidney disease is increasing internationally with risk factors for the condition being the same as those for type 2 diabetes. It is important therefore for nurses to use primary, secondary and ... -
The Support Needs and Current Practices of Public Health Nurses in the Republic of Ireland Who Provide Support to Breastfeeding Mothers: A Cross-Sectional Survey
(2023)Background: Breastfeeding continuation rates are low in Ireland. The Breastfeeding Observation and Assessment Tool (BOAT) was developed to assist public health nurses in assessing breastfeeding challenges; however, little ... -
The Person-centred Curriculum Framework: a universal curriculum framework for person-centred healthcare practitioner education
(2022)Background: Globally, humanising healthcare is a strategic response to a distinct need for person- centred approaches to practice. This movement has largely focused on the artefacts of healthcare practice, with an emergent ... -
Distribution of Nature-based Solutions in cities across Europe
(2024)Nature-based Solutions (NBS) is a conceptual framework that seeks to use properties of nature to co-produce ecosystem services to build climate change resilience and improve quality of life by mitigating the relation- ship ...
