Objectives: To measure the effects of the civil unrest (the Troubles) on the mental health of the general population of Northern Ireland. Design: A secondary analysis of a nationally representative population survey conducted in 1997. Setting: Northern Ireland. Methods: This is an analysis of the...
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Around 6 per cent of Northern Ireland’s health budget is dedicated to mental health, half of what England dedicates to the challenge. Professor of Social Policy at Ulster University, Deirdre Heenan, recently stated that the relatively low level of investment has “led to underfunded psychological...
Many psychologically informed books and papers have been published during the past 30 years that have explored different elements of the Northern Ireland problem. These have ranged from Padraig O'Malley's (1990) fascinating examination of the world of the hunger strikers and their families, to a ...
The state of mental health services for young people is likely to feature at some stage in the general election campaign that has now formally got under way. If it does, the outgoing coalition parties may struggle to defend their record....
Research by Lynette Hughes and Gerard Leavey at the Northern Ireland Association of Mental Health in Belfast, Northern Ireland, shows that athletes may be more vulnerable to developing mental illness than the general population. Results from their studies show that increased risk stems from pressure...
Based on census material from 1926 to 1991, this study focuses on gender differences in occupancy rates in mental health beds in Northern Ireland. More specifically, using two sets of research literature — the relationships between war and mental health and gender and mental health respectively —...
mental health assessmentslooked after childrenAs part of the UK's National Health Service modernisation agenda, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Northern Ireland set up a Service Improvement Unit (SIU). The aim of the SIU was to identify key areas in the Health and...
• the possible role of a Mental Health Champion in the Republic of Ireland, building on the experience in Northern Ireland; • improved and more standardised data collection on mental health, as a tool for comparing policy outcomes, and to help share learning and information; ...
This Order amends Articles 77 and 78 of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 to remove the incompatibility of those provisions with Article 5(1) and 5(4) of the European Convention on Human Rights. In England and Wales, in the case of The Queen on the application of H v Me...