Social and spatial inequalities in health status and health service access are pervasive throughout Ireland. However, they rarely form the subject of prolonged public scrutiny. It is clear that the Irish Government has ...

It has long been understood that crime statistics are notoriously ‘difficult’ to use and interpret (Coleman, 1996). Deficiencies in reporting are a feature that has been noted internationally (Lynch & Addington, 2007), ...

Revelations concerning the extensive falsification of breathalyser testing statistics by the Irish Police (O’Sullivan, 2017), An Garda Síochána, have recently escalated into a damning expose of a series of more incriminating ...

There has been significant growth in ecological/environmental labelling of products and services internationally in recent years. Such efforts have become an integral element of the marketing strategies used by many ...

Legislation in Ireland now requires standardised packaging for cigarette packets as well as the EU mandated combined graphic and text anti-smoking warnings. However, although overt tobacco advertising has also been banned ...

Combined health warnings on tobacco packaging are commonplace amongst EU countries in 2018. This letter briefly describes some of the challenges that bi-and tri-lingual countries, such as Belgium, may face in the years to come.

INTRODUCTION Smoking continues to extract an unacceptably high toll in Ireland in terms of both mortality and morbidity. Therefore, attention needs to focus on examining pro-smoking influences on teenagers and young ...

Despite a significant decrease in the prevalence of Leprosy since the introduction of Multi-Drug Therapy (MDT) in the 1980s, it remains a scourge. Unfortunately the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the disease ...