Health Status Publications

Institute of Public Health, Making Chronic Conditions Count: Hypertension, Stroke, Coronary Heart Disease, Diabetes – a systematic approach to estimating and forecasting population prevalence on the island of Ireland, Feb 2010 Click here to access IPH Publications
Department of Health and Children Health in Ireland - Key Trends 2009 http://www.dohc.ie/publications/health_in_ireland2009.html
Health Service Executive Health Status of the Population of Ireland 2008
Department of Health and Children Latest Health Trends in Ireland, Oct 2007
http://www.dohc.ie/statistics/key_trends.html

Department of Health and Children Health Statistics 2005 Report
http://www.dohc.ie/publications/health_stats_2005.html

Article on Health Status in Ireland – Challenges for the Future, Dr. Patrick Doorley, National Director of Population Health, HSEHealth Status in Ireland Challenges for the Future.pdf (size 99.9 KB)

Links to presentations on Population Projections from the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland Annual Symposium, January 24th 2008.
Projecting Population Mortality for Ireland (Shane Whelan).pdf (size 1.6 MB)
Wealthier and Healthier Recent decline in Irish Mortality rates (Brendan Walsh) (size 803.6KB)
The Department of Health UK has produced a Health Profile of England 2007. See chapter onInternational comparisons for health status information on Ireland.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsStatistics/DH_079716

The 2006 EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC)
2006 EU-SILC Report

Dept. of Health and Children, Slan 07 - Survey of Lifestyle, Attitudes and Nutrition in Ireland, Dietary Habits of the Irish Population, 2008
http://www.slan06.ie/slannutritionreportfinal.pdf (PDF 6.49MB)

The Atlas of Health: Mapping the Challenges and Causes of Disease, Dr Diarmuid O’Donovan, Director of Public Health in HSE West, Galway and Senior Lecturer in Social and Preventive Medicine at NUI Galway.
For details see link to Earthscan