Supporting community cohesion through ICT: The epartners programme in Northern Ireland

Supporting community cohesion through ICT: The epartners programme in Northern Ireland

In the face of deep-rooted sectarian sentiment in Northern Ireland and the pervasive nature of ‘‘separateness’’ between the Protestant and Catholic communities, this article examines school projects designed to promote community cohesion and assesses the role that information and communications technology (ICT) can play to encourage collaboration within a social psychology framework. Further, w...

Community mothers' programme: extension to the travelling community in Ireland.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To see whether the community mothers' programme, using lay volunteer mothers to deliver a childhood development programme, could be extended successfully to the travelling community in Ireland. DESIGN This was a prospective study of the travelling community; comparisons were made with results of a previous randomised trial of settled mothers. SETTING A regional health author...

Rubella screening programme--preliminary results in Northern Ireland.

IT is well known that rubella infection occurring during the first four months in pregnancy is associated with a high incidence of congenital abnormalities in the foetus.' In Northern Ireland it is considered that an average of eight handicapped infants are born annually as a result of rubella.2 In order to prevent this problem, routine immunisation of 11 -14 year old girls was introduced in 19...

Emergence of community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) in Northern Ireland

In the summer of 2006, a previously healthy 16 year old individual presented to the local Accident and Emergency Department, of a Northern Ireland hospital, with a 1.5cm diameter abscess over the left great toe, surrounded by cellulitis. The lesion had failed to respond to oral flucloxacillin prescribed by the family doctor. Apart from trauma to the toe three weeks previously, the patient had n...

Community-Based Justice in Northern Ireland and South Africa