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Ireland's central source for Open Access health research
Lenus, the Irish Health Research repository is the leading source for Irish research in health and social care. The Lenus collections include peer reviewed journal articles, grey literature, dissertations, reports and conference presentations. Lenus contains the publications of the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) and the collected research output of over 130 health organisations past and present are all freely accessible.
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If you are an Irish researcher or have conducted research in an Irish institution or health organisation, you can add your published research to Lenus. Submitted articles must be available in Open Access format or the publisher's policy must permit author self archiving. Advice on Open Access publishing and publishers' policies is available on the 'Open Access Publishing Guide' and 'Publishers' policies' pages available on the left-hand menu.
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HSE Open Access Research Awards 2022
The annual HSE Open Access Awards were announced on 5th December 2022. This year the winners were in the following categories:
Acute Care & Hospitals
Response to treatment and outcomes of infantile spasms in Down syndrome.
Susan Harvey and colleagues
Community & Social Care
The duration of infectiousness of individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2.
Kieran Walsh and colleagues
Mental Health & Disabilities
Padraig Collins and colleagues
Integrated Services
John Smith and colleagues
Climate or Environmental Health
Yvonne Gregory
Special Innovation Award Winner
Martin Boudou and colleagues
OVERALL WINNER
An Evaluation of the Impact of a Multicomponent Stop Smoking Intervention in an Irish Prison
Andrea Bowe and colleagues
Congratulations to all our winners, and to all who entered their research for the Awards. And a sincere thanks to our judges, who generously lent us their expertise.
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Geographic inequalities in non-acute healthcare supply: evidence from Ireland.Background: Recent reforms in Ireland, as outlined in Sláintecare, the report of the cross-party parliamentary committee on health, are focused on shifting from a hospital-centric system to one where non-acute care plays a more central role. However, these reforms were embarked on in the absence of timely and accurate information about the capacity of non-acute care to take on a more central role in the system. To help address this gap, this paper outlines the most comprehensive analysis to date of geographic inequalities in non-acute care supply in Ireland. Methods: Data on the supply of 10 non-acute services including primary care, allied health, and care for older people, were collated. Per capita supply for each service is described for 28 counties in Ireland (Tipperary and Dublin divided into North and South), using 2014 supply and population data. To examine inequity in the geographic distribution of services, raw population in each county was adjusted for a range of needs indicators. Results: The findings show considerable geographic inequalities across counties in the supply of non-acute care. Some counties had low levels of supply of several types of non-acute care. The findings remain largely unchanged after adjusting for need, suggesting that the unequal patterns of supply are also inequitable. Conclusions: In the context of population changes and the influence of non-need factors, the persistence of historical budgeting in Ireland has led to considerable geographic inequities in non-acute supply, with important lessons for Ireland and for other countries. Such inequities come into sharp relief in the context of COVID-19, where non-acute supply plays a crucial role in ensuring that acute services are preserved for treating acutely ill patients.
