Health
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Paying for health
The insurance hike has helped to prompt a fundamental rethink about Ireland’s health system. VHI’s market dominance is its main…
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Children’s hospital dispute
A fresh row has broken out over the site for the proposed national children’s hospital and divisions are beginning to…
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Moving in the right direction
Health policy analyst Sara Burke examines how health care will change under the new Fine Gael-Labour coalition. In times of…
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Incentivising reform
eolas hears some of Ireland’s leading health professionals’ suggestions for health care reform. A group of the health professionals has…
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Towards a new health care system
ESRI Director, Professor Frances Ruane, outlines the recommendations put to the Department of Health and Children for a complete reform…
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Coping with population change
ESRI research professor Richard Layte analyses how the increasing proportion of over 65s in the population, the higher life expectancy,…
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Regulating reproduction
Legislation for the “complex, profound and divisive” world of assisted human reproduction will be initiated in 2010. Since 1999, when…
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Primary care
The HSE remain optimistic about its primary care initiative despite progress being “slower than initially hoped.” A “modern, patient centred…
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The state of our health
Bad habits must be tackled in order to improve the health and well-being of the Irish population. Obesity and diabetes…
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Government savings: Aileen Murphy
Aileen Murphy suggests how the health care system can fairly implement the McCarthy report’s recommendations that people contribute more to…
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