Defining inherited haematological disease within the Irish traveller population

Abstract

The Traveller Community in Ireland constitutes a minority of nomadic or semi-nomadic people, sharing a common Irish ancestry. The Traveller Health Study showed that in 1987, Travellers were only reaching the life expectancy that the settled population had reached in the 1940’s and that the perinatal mortality for travellers was as high as the national rate in 1966