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Jingjing J, Kim N, Garrido M, Jacobson M, May P, Causal Analyses of Palliative Care Using Observational Data: A Systematic Review of Current Literature and Consideration of Future Opportunities, International Health Economics Association (iHEA) Research Congress, Online, 2021
May P, Normand C, The 80/20 Rule in Last Year of Life: Who Are the Costliest Patients in the Irish System?, International Health Economics Association (iHEA) Research Congress, Online, 2021
Jingjing J, May P, Is palliative care provision associated with prevalence of death in hospital at the population level? Evidence from 30 European countries in the years 2005-2017, Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, Online, 2021
May P, Matthews S, Palliative Care Effects on Hospital Mortality and Utilization: Causal Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental, Nationwide Evaluation in Ireland, Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, Online, 2021
Aldridge MD, Moreno J, McKendrick K, Li L, Brody A, May P, Hospice is Cost Saving for the Healthcare System and Families, Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, Online, 2021
Isenberg SR, Meaney C, May P, Tanuseputro P, Quinn K, Qureshi D, Saunders S, Webber C, Seow H, Downar J, Smith TJ, Husain A, Lawlor PG, Fowler R, Lachance J, McGrail K, Hsu AT., The association between varying levels of palliative care involvement on costs during terminal hospitalizations in Canada from 2012 to 2015., BMC health services research, 21, (1), 2021, p331
Ahmed R, May P., Does high COVID-19 spread impact neighbouring countries? Evidence from Ireland. , HRB Open Res, 4, 2021, p56
O'Connor, C., O'Connell, N., Burke, E., Nolan, A., Dempster, M., Graham, C.D., Nicolson, G., Barry. J., Scally, G., Crowley, P., Zgaga, L., Mather,L., & Darker, C.D, Media Representations of Science during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Analysis of News and Social Media on the Island of Ireland, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
Amplifying Seldom Heard Voices in, editor(s)Horgan, D. Kennan, D. , Child and Youth Participation in Policy, Practice and Research, London, Routledge, 2021, [Feely, N.; Fleming, P,; Greene, S.]
O'Donoghue, C., Thomas, S., Fleming, P., Almirall-Sanchez, A. & Mockler, D., PROTOCOL: Metrics and Indicators Used to Assess Health System Resilience in Response to Shocks to Health Systems - A Systematic Review., PROSPERO - International prospective register of systematic reviews, 2021
Fleming, P., Caffrey, L., Mockler, D., & Thomas, S, PROTOCOL: A realist review to determine how health system austerity responses to the 2008 financial crisis impacted health system resilience for subsequent shocks - why, when, for whom and under what circumstances., PROSPERO - International prospective register of systematic reviews, (CRD42021264112), 2021
Unruh L, Allin, S, Marchildon, Burke, S, Barry, S, Siersbaek, Thomas, S, Selina, R, Andriy, K, Alexander, M, Merkur, S, Webb, E,Williams, GA., A comparison of health policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemicin Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States ofAmericaLynn Unruh , Sara Allin , Greg Marchildon , Sara Burke ,Sarah Barry , Rikke Siersbaek , Steve Thomas , Rajan Selina ,Koval Andriy , Mathew Alexander , Sherry Merkur , Erin Webb ,Gemma A. WilliamsPII:S0168-8510(21)00169-XDOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.06.012Reference:HEAP 4480To appear in:Health policyReceived date:17 February 2021Revised date:8 June 2021Accepted date:24 June 2021Pleasecitethisarticleas:Lynn Unruh ,Sara Allin ,Greg Marchildon ,Sara Burke ,Sarah Barry , Rikke Siersbaek , Steve Thomas , Rajan Selina , Koval Andriy , Mathew Alexander ,Sherry Merkur , Erin Webb , Gemma A. Williams , A comparison of health policy responses to theCOVID-19 pandemic in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America,Health policy(2021), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.06.012This is a PDF file of an article that has undergone enhancements after acceptance, such as the additionof a cover page and metadata, and formatting for readability, but it is not yet the definitive version ofrecord. This version will undergo additional copyediting, typesetting and review before it is publishedin its final form, but we are providing this version to give early visibility of the article. Please note that,during the production process, errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legaldisclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.©2021 Published by Elsevier B.V., Health Policy, online 1 July, 2021
Bruen C, Merriman NA, Murphy PJ, McCormack J, Sexton E, Harbison J, Williams D, Kelly PJ, Horgan F, Collins R, Ní Bhreacáin M, Byrne E, Thornton J, dummy-AUTHOR_name, Hickey A, Development of a national stroke audit in Ireland: scoping review protocol, 2021
HIV Ireland Ltd and the Gay Health Network, The role of the gay community in the response to HIV and AIDS in Ireland, Irish AIDS Day 2021, Virtual, 15th June , 2021, HIV Ireland Ltd
United Nations Population Fund, State of the World's Population 2021, Launch of the State of the World's Population Report, Virtual, 2021, UNFPA and the IFPA
PLOS ONE Global Public Health, San Francisco, California, Public Library of Science, [eds.], 2021
Daly M, MacLachlan M, Maguire FR, McHugh J, Nolan A, Shevlin M, Spikol E, Vallières F, Hyland P., Changes in PTSD, depression, and generalized anxiety before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland, Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 5, (100184), 2021
Salla Atkins, Ananya Tina Banerjee, Kathleen Bachynski, Amrita Daftary, Gauri Desai, Aeyal Gross, Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Emily Mendenhall, Benjamin Mason Meier, Stephanie A Nixon, Ann Nolan, Tia M Palermo, Alexandra Phelan, Oksana Pyzik, Pamela Roach, Thurka Sangaramoorthy, Claire J. Standley, Gavin Yamey, Seye Abimbola, Madhukar Pai, Using the COVID-19 pandemic to reimagine global health teaching in high-income countries, BMJ Global Health, 6, (e005649), 2021
Cliodhna O'Connor, Nicola O'Connell, Emma Burke, Martin Dempster, Christopher D. Graham, Gabriel Scally, Lina Zgaga, Ann Nolan, Gail Nicolson, Luke Mather, Joseph Barry, Philip Crowley, Catherine D. Darker,, Bordering on crisis: A qualitative analysis of focus group, social media, and news media perspectives on the Republic of Ireland-Northern Ireland border during the 'first wave' of the COVID-19 pandemic, Social Science and Medicine, 282, 2021
Siersbaek Rikke, Ford John Alexander, Burke Sara, NÃ Cheallaigh ClÃona, Thomas Steve, Contexts and mechanisms that promote access to healthcare for populations experiencing homelessness: a realist review , 11 , (4 ), 2021, pe043091 -
Nolan Ann, Burke Sara, Burke Emma, Darker Catherine, Barry Joe, O'Connell Nicola, Zgaga Lina, Mather Luke, Nicolson Gail, Dempster Martin, Graham Christopher, Crowley Philip, O'Connor Cliodhna, Tobin Katy, Scally Gabriel, Obstacles to Public Health that even Pandemics cannot Overcome: The , Irish Studies in International Affairs , 32 , (2 ), 2021, p225 - 246
Mandy Lee, Introduction to Research Ethics Principles (as part of Tusla Child and Family Agency Research Ethics Committee Induction Programme), Tusla National Child and Family Agency Research Ethics Committee Induction Programme, Dublin, Ireland, 30 March, 2021, 2021, Tusla Child and Family Agency
Mandy Lee, Margaret Martin-Carroll, Wendy Von Mollendorff, Claire Condon, Matthew Kavanagh, Steve Thomas, Common patterns in the public reporting of waiting time and waiting list information: findings from a sample of OECD jurisdictions, Health Policy, 2021
Wyse J, Mangan, R and Zgaga L, Power determination in vitamin D randomised control trials and characterising factors affecting it through a novel simulation-based tool, Scientific Reports, 11, 2021, p10804
Nolan, A., Burke, S., Burke, E., Darker, C., Barry, J., O'Connell, N., Zgaga, L., Mather, L., Nicolson, G., Dempster, M., Graham, C., Crowley, P., O'Connor, C., Tobin, K and Scally, G., Obstacles to Public Health that even Pandemics cannot Overcome: The Politics of Covid-19 on the Island of Ireland, Irish Studies in International Affairs, 32, (2), 2021
O'Dwyer AM, Campion M, Practical Psychiatry for Students and Trainees, TCD, Oxford University Press, In press, 2021
Seán R. Millar, Deirdre Mongan, Bobby P. Smyth, Ivan J. Perry, Brian Galvin , Relationships between age at first substance use and persistence of cannabis use and cannabis use disorder, BMC Public Health, 2021
McCarron P., Smyth B., Carroll G., Glynn M., Barry J., Whiston L., Keenan E., Darker C., Truszkowska E., Patterns of new psychoactive substance use among opioid-dependent patients attending for opioid substitution treatment, HEROIN ADDICTION AND RELATED CLINICAL PROBLEMS, 23, 2021
Hennigan K, Corrigan E, Killeen N, Keenan E, Scully M, Overview of tertiary addiction services response to Opioid Dependence during the Covid 19 pandemic, Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2021, p1 - 14
Durand L, Boland F, O'Driscoll D, Bennett K, Barry J, Keenan E, Fahey T, Cousins G, Factors associated with early or later dropout from methadone maintenance treatment in specialist addiction clinics: a six year cohort study using proportional hazards frailty models for recurrent treatment episodes, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 219, 2021
Smyth, Bobby P, Christie, Grant IG, Opposition to cannabis legalization on public health grounds, The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 9, 2021, p100142
Smith, S and Jiang, J and Normand, C and O?Neill, C, Unit costs for non-acute care in Ireland 2016?2019 [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review], HRB Open Research, 4, (39), 2021
Eagleton M, Stokes, S, Fenton, F, Keenan E, Does opioid substitution treatment have a protective effect on the clinical manifestations of COVID-19? Comment on Br J Anaesth 2020; 125: e382-3., British Journal of Anaesthesia, 126, (3), 2021, pe114 - e116
Grainne Sheill, Emer Guinan, Linda O'Neill, Emily Smyth, Charles Normand, Suzanne L. Doyle, Sarah Moore, John Newell, Grainne McDermott, Ronan Ryan, John V. Reynolds, Juliette Hussey, Prehabilitation during a pandemic: preoperative exercise to improve fitness in patients undergoing complex surgery for cancer of the lung or oesophagus, the PRE-HIIT trial: an updated study protocol, HRB Open Research, 4, 2021, p4
Tobin K, Maguire S, Corr B, Normand C, Hardiman O, Galvin M., Discrete choice experiment for eliciting preference for health services for patients with ALS and their informal caregivers, BMC Health Services Research, 2021 Mar 9;21(1):213, 2021, p213-
Smyth, Bobby P., Cannon, Mary, Cannabis Legalization and Adolescent Cannabis Use: Explanation of Paradoxical Findings, Journal of Adolescent Health, 2021
Smyth BP., Head shops and new psychoactive substances: a public health perspective., Irish journal of psychological medicine, 2021, p1-8
Smyth BP, Cannon M., Cannabis and public health-a need to reclaim the narrative., Ir J Med Sci, 2021
Millar SR, Mongan D, O'Dwyer C, Long J, Smyth BP, Perry IJ, Galvin B., Correlates of patterns of cannabis use, abuse and dependence: evidence from two national surveys in Ireland., European journal of public health, 2021
Snell, M, Nicksica, N, Panteli, D, Burke, S, Eissenberga,T, Fattored, G, Gaucie,C, Koprivnikarf, H, Murauskieneg, L, Reinaph, M, Barnes, A., Emerging electronic cigarette policies in European member states, Canada, and the United States, Health Policy, 2021
Barry, S, Ní Fhallúin, M, Thomas, S, Harnett, PJ, Burke, S. , Implementing Integrated Care in Practice - Learning from MDTs Driving the Integrated Care Programme for Older Persons in Ireland, International Journal of Integrated Care , 21(1):15, ((1) ), 2021, p1 - 11
Thomas, S., Fleming, P., O'Donoghue, C., Almirall-Sanchez, A., Strengthening health system resilience - what role for migrants and migration policies?, The Migrants and Systemic Resilience Hub, (5), 2021, p1 - 8
Fleming, P, McGilloway S, Thomas, S., Individualised Funding: A Realist Analysis to Identify the Causal Factors That Facilitate Positive Outcomes, Disabilities, 1, (1), 2021, p47 - 57
Minnogue, V., Matvienko-Sikar, K., Hayes, C., Morrissey, M., Gorman, G., Teres, A, The usability and applicability of knowledge translation models for research in the context of a national health service. Health Research Policy and Systems., BMC Health Research Policy and Systems., 2021
Tully, L., Spyreli, E., Allen-Walker, V., Matvienko-Sikar, K., McHugh, S., Hayes, CB., Heary, C., Kelly, C, Recruiting 'hard to reach' parents for health promotion research: experiences from a qualitative study, BMC Research Notes, 2021
Matvienko-Sikar, K., O' Neill, KN., Fraser, A., Hayes, CB., Howe, LD., Huizink, AC., Kearney, PM., Khashan, A., Redsell, S., O'Keeffe, LM., Maternal prenatal anxiety, depression and stressful life events and trajectories of cardiometabolic risk factors across childhood and adolescence: a prospective cohort study, JAMA Cardiology, 2021
O'Murchu, E., Marshall, L., Hayes, CB., Harrington, P., Moran, P., Teljeur, C., Ryan, M. , Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical effectiveness, safety, adherence and risk compensation in all populations., BMJ Open, 2021
O'Connell, N., Burke, E., Dobbie, F., Dougall, N., Mockler, D., Vance, J., Darker, C., Bernstein, S., Harper Brooks, A., Gilbert, H., Bauld, L., Hayes, CB. , Smoking cessation interventions for socio-economically disadvantaged women: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Systematic Reviews., 2021
Hayes, CB., O'Connell, N., Darker, C., et al. , We Can Quit2 (WCQ2): a community-based peer-delivered intervention on smoking cessation for women living in disadvantaged areas of Ireland-results from a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial., Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 2021
Ó Murchú E.,Teljeur C.,Hayes C.,Harrington P.,Moran P., Ryan M., Cost-effectiveness Analysis of a Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Programme in Ireland , Value in Health, 2021
Ward, M., May, P., Normand, C., Kenny, R.A., Nolan, A, Mortality risk associated with combinations of loneliness and social isolation. Findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), Age and Ageing, 2021
Aoibheann Conneely, Jo-Hanna Ivers, Joe Barry, Elaine Dunne, Norma O'Leary Clíona Ní Cheallaigh, Estimation of palliative care needs of people experiencing homelessness using mortality data and cause-of-death., Palliative Care Medicine , 2021
Catherine D Darker, Emma Moore, Ellen Flynn, Mary O'Neill, Lena Doherty, Jean McMahon, Orla McLoughlin, Eimear Rouine, Jo-Hanna Ivers, Shane Allwright, David McGrath, Aidan Seery, Martin McAndrew, Emer Barrett, Michelle Tanner, Annemarie E Bennett, Sabina Brennan, Martina Mullin, Joe M Barry , Development and proposed evaluation of an eHealth learning tool for undergraduate university students in Ireland, Health Promotion International , 2021
Darker, C.D., Moore, E., Flynn, E., O'Neill, M., Doherty, L., McMahon, J., McLoughlin, O., Rouine, E., Ivers, J., Allwright, S., McGrath, D., Seery, A., McAndrew, M., Barrett, E., Tanner, M., Bennett, A.E., Brennan, S., Mullin, M., Barry, J.M. , Development and proposed evaluation of an eHealth learning tool for undergraduate university students in Ireland, Health Promotion International, 2021, p1 - 14
Maeve Haran, John R. Kelly, Liam Kennedy, Kieran Hennigan, Huma Farid, Cristina Herteu, Anna Kreisel, Shamus Salehin, Marie O' Sullivan, Shay Keating, Jo-Hanna Ivers & Mike Scully , An audit of the cervical screening programme in the National Drug Treatment Centre (NDTC), Irish Journal of Medical Science , 2021
Thomas,S, Johnston, J, Barry, S, Siersbaek, R, Burke, S., Sláintecare implementation status in 2020: Limited progress with entitlement expansion, Health Policy, 2021
Siersbaek, R; Ford, J; Ní Cheallaigh, C;Burke, S;Thomas, S., Making healthcare accessible for single adults with complex needs experiencing long-term homelessness: A realist evaluation protocol [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]., HRB Open Research , 2021, p1-17
Burke, Sara, Thomas, Steve, Stach, Malgorzata, Kavanagh, Paul, Magahy, Laura, Johnston, Bridget, Barry, Sarah, Health system foundations for Sláintecare implementation in 2020 and beyond " co-producing a Sláintecare Living Implementation Framework with Evaluation: Learning from the Irish health system"s response to COVID-19. A mixed-methods study protocol, HRB Open Research, 3, 2021, p70
Jo-Hanna Ivers, Eamon Keenan, Nicki Kileen, Francesca Giulini and Eamon Keenan, A Review of Drug Checking And Related Considerations For Implementation In Ireland, Drug and Alcohol Review , 2021
Jo-Hanna Ivers, Nicki Kileen, and Eamon Keenan, 'Whats in the Pill': a survey of drug use and related behaviours amongst festival goers in Ireland , Irish Journal of Medical Science , 2021
"They have their bailiwick and I have mine": the leadership of Mary O'Rouke in the transformation of policy for school-based sex education in the era of AIDS in Ireland in, editor(s)Rosemary Morgan, Sulzan Bali, Roopa Dhatt, Kate Hawkins, Mehr Manzoor , Women in Global Health Leadership: Power and Transformation, Geneva, Springer Nature, 2021, [Ann Nolan]