http://hdl.handle.net/10147/48935 Thu, 23 May 2013 00:54:41 GMT 2013-05-23T00:54:41Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/263812 Title: A report on the staff survey on smoking carried out in November 2002. Authors: Plant, Rose-Marie; South Western Area Health Board. Heath Promotion Department. Tobacco Control Service. Description: As part of its recent development the Tobacco Control Service, of the Health Promotion Department in the South Western Area Health Board, has expanded. Alongside the Senior Health Promotion Officer for Tobacco for the region, we currently have four Health Promotion Officers for Smoking Cessation, one per community care area. A reduction in tobacco use has been identified as the single most important health action that countries can take for both health and economic gain. l Tobacco use is the single, most important, preventable risk to human health.2 Apart from respiratory and cardiovascular disease, it is responsible for approximately 35% of all cancers in our region2 including 90% of all lung cancers.2 ,3 Environmental tobacco smoke has been accepted as a causal factor for coronary heart disease (CHD), as well as for lung cancer and for respiratory diseases in children.4 A cigarette is the only consumer product which, when consumed as desired, kills half of its regular customers. All of these deaths are preventable. The National Health and Lifestyle Survey (Slan) reported in 1999, that 31% of adult respondents were regular or occasional cigarette smokers. The prevalence of smoking was slightly higher among males (32%) than females (31%) but when further categorised by age, the youngest female age group exhibited a significantly higher rate of 40%. The recently published report on the health of staff across the Eastern Regional Health Authority5 identified the following: • 90% of Staff felt that their employer should provide workplace smoking cessation programmes. • Over 50% of staff expressed a desire to quit smoking within the next year. • 63% of staff found environmental tobacco smoke bothersome at work. Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/263812 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/239091 Title: Mental health in primary care Authors: Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP); South Western Area Health Board (SWAHB) Description: Over 360 General Practitioners provide primary health core services to individuals and families in those areas. Many individuals visiting GPs experience mental health difficulties ranging from mild and transitory distress to severe, enduring and disabling mental illness. In keeping with the paradigm shift towards community and primary core, underlined by most of the new policy documents, the SWAHB supports a community core model where the majority of people s health needs, including mental health, will be provided within primary core . Moreover, res ponding to mental health difficulties and disorders also requires a continuum of interventions that ore available with in both general practice and specialised mental health settings. In order to sustain this preferred model, it become evident that a comprehensive examination of the current mental health service delivery in general practice was required . Despite the key role of general practitioners in the provision of mental health services in the Irish health core system historically, little is known about the extent and types of mental health services provided in primary core. Until now most of the data has been derived from research conducted in the UK. This lock of crucial information prompted the SWAHB and the Eastern Regional Health Authority (ERHA) to conduct a research project. Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/239091 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/86870 Title: Special Board meeting - 29th January 2001: review of service visits by Board members [discussion document] Authors: South Western Area Health Board (SWAHB) Mon, 29 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/86870 2001-01-29T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/86868 Title: [Child care advisory committee / nomination of Board members] [discussion document] Authors: South Western Area Health Board (SWAHB) Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/86868 2000-04-04T00:00:00Z