RSS 1.0Public Health & Primary Care (Theses and Dissertations)
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Cost and resource requirements for colorectal cancer screening in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2025)Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a global public health problem. CRC screening reduces the colorectal cancer burden through the removal of precursor lesions and identifying the disease at an early stage. CRC screening is ... -
Vitamin D and Hair: A review of current methods and validation of a quantitation method to measure 25(OH)D3 from hair
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2025)Introduction: Hair has emerged as a promising matrix for assessing endogenous steroid hormone levels, yet its potential for the quantitation of vitamin D remains unexploited. Vitamin D status is typically assessed by ... -
Sunshine genomics: a gene-environment interaction approach to the study of the genetic determinants of vitamin D status and skin cancer
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2025)Complex health traits are shaped by the interplay between genetic and environmental factors. Understanding the contributions of these factors is particularly important for traits such as vitamin D status and skin cancer ... -
The development and applications of a child-centred Well-Being Index : findings from a longitudinal project using data from the Growing Up in Ireland study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2017)The children of today are the adults of tomorrow. Therefore, children's well-being is relevant for the current and future society. In this context, the study of well-being of children and young people has received great ... -
A qualitative study exploring policy-amenable factors influencing medical device-related patient safety from a lifecycle perspective
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2024)Thesis Title: A qualitative study exploring policy-amenable factors influencing medical device-related patient safety from a lifecycle perspective Author: Kathleen Rose Harkin Abstract Introduction: Medical devices ... -
Strategy Selection and Comparison in the Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Cancer Screening
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2023)Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is well-established in application to cancer screening programmes. CEAs of screening differ from analyses of therapeutic interventions as the choice of strategies for comparison is not ... -
Facilitating readiness for advance care planning in Ireland: Informing the design of an innovative intervention for middle aged and older people in the community
Background: Advance care planning (ACP) is a process aiming to elicit, communicate, and document future care wishes, providing mechanisms through which individual preferences can be supported. Poor and fragmented ... -
Vitamin D in the Irish Population: an analysis of prevalence and determinants
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2023)Introduction: Vitamin D has an established role in bone and muscle health, with deficiency causing rickets in children, osteomalacia in adults and contributing to the development of osteoporosis. More recently it has been ... -
How Local Decision Making Works for Adaptations of Health Interventions During Scale-up: A Realist Review
Introduction: Scaling-up health interventions is a complex process with growing recognition of the need to make adaptations to interventions to address diverse contexts and populations encountered across multiple sites. ... -
How can health systems make healthcare more accessible for populations experiencing homelessness? A realist and policy analysis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2022)Problem Populations experiencing long-term homelessness and complex needs face difficulties accessing healthcare. Prior research has predominantly focused on the individual characteristics that contribute to those ... -
Reducing Sedentary Behaviour in the Workplace: A Theory-led Multicomponent Intervention
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2021)There is strong evidence demonstrating that there is a relationship between greater time spent in sedentary behaviour (SB) and greater all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease mortality and incidence, type 2 diabetes ... -
Clinical and Cost-effectiveness of a Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Programme to prevent HIV
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2021)Introduction There has been an increase in HIV notifications in recent years in Ireland. PrEP is a form of HIV prevention whereby oral antiretrovirals are taken by HIV-negative individuals to prevent infection. The aim ... -
Patient and family participation in healthcare design and delivery in a psychiatry and a type 2 diabetes service
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2019)Background: There is no consensus on the best way to include patients and family in healthcare design and delivery. This PhD aimed to develop, implement and test the feasibility of an intervention to encourage patient and ... -
Incorporating oral health collaborative practice into primary medical care in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2019)Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the opportunities for, and the barriers to, the integration of oral health into primary health care in Ireland, and to propose recommendations to support the development of sustainable ... -
An evaluation of pain management post surgery
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Community Health and General Practice, 2001)Patients continue to suffer m oderate pain post surgery, much of which may be unnecessary with careful strategic pain management. The influence of routine and rituals in the management of pain is evident from the literature. ... -
An investigation into the use of the temporal scan statistic as a monitoring tool for health impact assessment
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2005)Health impact assessment (HIA) is an important methodological development within public health. Its purpose is to ensure that health is considered as a part of all government proposals and policies. While there has been ... -
Dysphagia in solid malignancies outside the head, neck and upper gastrointestinal tract
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2019)Background Dysphagia is often associated with head, neck, and upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract cancers. It also occurs in those with solid malignancies outside anatomic swallow regions. When present, it leads to clinical ... -
Checking the weight of children in general practice
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 2015)Childhood overweight is a serious health concern. Checking the weight of the child can be done in the primary care setting, where GPs have the opportunity to check the weight of children attending for routine care.It is ... -
From the inside out : an idiographic account of the policy making process that produced the Irish work place smoking ban
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Centre of Health Policy and Management, 2015)This research goes inside the black box of the civil service policy making world, revealing the processes, procedures, engagements and exchanges that occur when a national policy is being developed, and identifying the ... -
The chronic ills of multimorbidity : a cross-sectional examination of the prevalence, patterns and factors associated with multimorbidity in the Irish population aged 50 years and over and its corresponding impact on health and social care utilisation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Centre of Health Policy and Management, 2013)Multimorbidity predicts many adverse health outcomes, placing a heavy burden on the individual as well as population health. It has clear implications for current healthcare provision and with the projected ageing of the ...
