Northern Ireland, like Wales and Scotland, is part of the United Kingdom. The total population in 1997 was 1,577,835. The health care structure is similar to the rest of the UK and Northern Ireland constitutes a complete health care region within the UK. It is divided into four area health and social services boards, each providing health and social care and responsible to the Northern Ireland ...

The Measurement of Child Costs: Evidence from Ireland We apply an extension of the Rothbarth approach to estimate the share of household resources accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children) in Ireland. The method also allows us to identify the economies of scale in the household and indifference scales in Lewbel (2003)’s sense. A practical aspect of the present approach is that it does n...

In 2001, 41% of all deaths in Ireland were due to cardiovascular disease (CVD), comprising coronary heart disease (CHD) 21%, stroke 9% and other diseases of the circulation 11% . By comparison, 26% of deaths were due to cancer. Although deaths from CVD in Ireland have been decreasing since 1985, they remain high (176/100,000 of the population) compared with the average EU figure of 108/100,000 ...

The phylum Tardigrada was not recorded in Ireland until the Clare Island Survey of 1909-1911, with only rare subsequent reports on Irish tardigrade species. In recent decades, significant taxonomic revision has occurred within Tardigrada. This has resulted in the need for a review of all known historical records from Ireland and Northern Ireland in order to produce an updated checklist of valid...

Thermophilic campylobacters, particularly Campylobacter jejuni, continue to remain the most common cause of acute bacterial enteritis in Northern Ireland. Most recent confirmed data for 2006 recorded 937 laboratory reports for Northern Ireland (http://www.cdscni.org.uk/surveillance/Gastro/ Campylobacter_sp.htm), approximating to 53.8 cases per 100,000 individuals, compared to an attack rate of ...