Videoconference between Dublin and NUI Galway

Safefood is holding a workshop on dietary standards on the island of Ireland with the aim to identify strategies to tackle food poverty issues as well as to discuss methodologies and evaluation techniques to be used in community intervention projects.  The workshop will take place on 16th April from 9.30 am - 4.15 pm at the Clarion Hotel, IFSC, in Dublin.

The main focus of the workshop will be two safefood funded Nutrition Research Projects:

2:00  Registration

2:10  Introduction - Dr John Devlin, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health and Children

2:15   The Injury Observatory for Britain and Ireland (IOBI) - Prof Ronan Lyons, Swansea University

10:45 am Registration

11:00 am Launch of "All-Ireland Health Data Inventory. Part 1: Metadata for Key Data Sources"

Too often across the island we hear the plea "Can someone just tell me what data are available?" Using agreed metadata standards, this Inventory describes over 150 selected data sources from both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.  At this seminar we launch the Inventory and describe its key features and how it is being disseminated through the All-Ireland electronic Health Library (AIeHL).

Promoting a systematic all-Ireland approach to monitoring the population prevalence of diabetes

Angela Jordan, Adele Graham and Kevin P Balanda, The Institute of Public Health in Ireland

INIsPHO Event Series 2007

Metadata and the National Public Health Language (NPHL), Past, Present and Future

Peter Cornelisson
Head of IM&T, Eastern Region Public Health Observatory (ERPHO), England

INIsPHO Lunchtime Seminar Series 2007

Neil Riley
Head of Health Information and Intelligence
Wales Centre for Health

Recently, the public health system in Wales was reviewed in order to identify national functions in health where a number of organisations and services overlap and to make recommendations for changes that can improve efficiency, effectiveness and value for money.