Old People in Northern Ireland

Does equality legislation reduce intergroup differences? Religious affiliation, socio-economic status and mortality in Scotland and Northern Ireland: A cohort study of 400,000 people.

Religion frequently indicates membership of socio-ethnic groups with distinct health behaviours and mortality risk. Determining the extent to which interactions between groups contribute to variation in mortality is often challenging. We compared socio-economic status (SES) and mortality rates of Protestants and Catholics in Scotland and Northern Ireland, regions in which interactions between g...

The Social Medicine of Old Age in Northern Ireland

THERE must be few people who do not have some appreciation of the practical implications of the increasing proportion of old people in our population, because the medical and social problems arising from this trend have been the subjects of nmaniy inquiries and much literary effort in recent years. As doctors, whether in hospital or in general practice, we have more reason than most to encounte...

An Irish View of the Northern Ireland Peace Agreement: The Interaction of Law and Politics

They include the treatment of the issues of self-determination, consent, and the status of Northern Ireland in the Irish Constitution and in British constitutional legislation; the establishment of new democratic institutions in Northern Ireland on a partnership basis; the creation of formal new links between the two jurisdictions in Ireland through a North/South Ministerial Council and a numbe...

Children and Young People with Cerebral Palsy in Northern Ireland (1981 – 2008)

EILEEN V. FEGAN and RACHEL REBOUCHE NORTHERN IRELAND’S ABORTION LAW: THE MORALITY OF SILENCE AND THE CENSURE OF AGENCY

This article explores the context within which abortion law and discourse in Northern Ireland must be situated and understood, relying in part on post-modern insights into the wider and long-term implications of feminists engaging law and by examining the strategies employed in Northern Ireland around the issue of abortion. In 2001, the Family Planning Association (Northern Ireland) took legal ...

Regional Variations in Morbidity in the Insured Population of Northern Ireland

FOR many years those concerned with the task of assessing community health have relied mainly on the Registrar General's mortality records and while they are undoubtedly of value and interest they do not represent the amount of sickness in our population. It is ironical that in our Welfare State, with its mass of protective and supportive social agencies, there does not seem to be any notable r...