Ireland And The Quality Of Life

Author : Tony Fahey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402069812
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quality of Life in Ireland written by Tony Fahey and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-06-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Ruane, Director, Economic and Social Research Institute Irish and international scholars continue to be curious about Ireland’s exceptional economic success since the early 1990s. While growth rates peaked at the turn of the millennium, they have since continued at levels that are high by any current international or historical Irish measures. Despite differences of view among Irish economists and policymakers on the relative importance of the factors that have driven growth, there is widespread agreement that the process of globalisation has contributed to Ireland’s economic development. In this context, it is helpful to recognise that globalisation has created huge changes in most developed and developing countries and has been associated, inter alia, with reductions in global income disparity but increased income disparity within individual countries. This book reflects on how, from a social perspective, Ireland has prospered over the past decade. In that period we have effectively moved from being a semi-developed to being a developed economy. While the book’s main focus is on the social changes induced by economic growth, there is also recognition that social change has facilitated economic growth. Although many would regard the past decade as a period when economic and social elements have combined in a virtuous cycle, there is a lingering question as to the extent to which we have better lives now that we are economically ‘better off’.

Author : Thomas E. Jordan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400761228
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in the Quality of Life in Victorian Britain and Ireland written by Thomas E. Jordan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It does so using several types and sources of information from the census unit England and Wales, and from Ireland. The sources of information used in this study include memoirs, diaries, poems, church records and numerical accounts. They offer descriptions of the quality of life and child mortality over the three centuries under study. Additional sources for the nineteenth century are two census-derived numerical indexes of the quality of life. They are the VICQUAL index for England and Wales, and the QUALEIRE index for Ireland. Statistical procedures have been applied to the numbers provided by the sources with the aim to identify effects of and associations between such variables as gender, age, and social background. The book examines the results to consider the impact of children’s deaths upon parents and families, and concludes that there are differences and continuities across the centuries.

Author : Carmen Kuhling
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitan Ireland written by Carmen Kuhling and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2007-07-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An insightful and engaging encounter with the complexities of a rapidly changing Ireland.' Dr. Patricia Cormack, St. Francis Xavior University, Canada

Author : Thomas E. Jordan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400743904
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quality of Life and Mortality Among Children written by Thomas E. Jordan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This birefs examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It does so using several types and sources of information from the census unit England and Wales, and from Ireland. The sources of information used in this study include memoirs, diaries, poems, church records and numerical accounts. They offer descriptions of the quality of life and child mortality over the three centuries under study. Additional sources for the nineteenth century are two census-derived numerical indexes of the quality of life. They are the VICQUAL index for England and Wales, and the QUALEIRE index for Ireland. Statistical procedures have been applied to the numbers provided by the sources with the aim to identify effects of and associations between such variables as gender, age, and social background. The briefs examines the results to consider the impact of children’s deaths upon parents and families, and concludes that there are differences and continuities across the centuries.

Author : Thomas Edward Jordan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780889461260
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland and the Quality of Life written by Thomas Edward Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Henry
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717190390
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Fact written by Mark Henry and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This optimistic guide to Ireland at 100 tells our national story through facts and stats, placing Ireland under the microscope to chart 100 achievements of the past 100 years. Ireland remained one of the most poverty-stricken nations in Europe for decades after the State was formed. Yet now, it has the second-highest standard of living in the world. Author Mark Henry has gathered the data to tell an under-told story of our national progress across every aspect of Irish life. He identifies the factors that account for Ireland's extraordinary success, as well as the five most prominent psychological biases that prevent us from recognising how far we have come. He also highlights the greatest challenges that we must now address if we are to continue to progress in the century ahead. While there is still more to be done, In Fact illustrates that Ireland, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than you might think.

Author : Ling, Julie
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335214932
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palliative Care In Ireland written by Ling, Julie and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does palliative care differ in the Republic of Ireland to other countries? This text provides an overview of palliative care services in Ireland from a multi-professional viewpoint.

Author : Meredith Wallace Kazer
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0826127037
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nursing Case Studies on Improving Health-Related Quality of Life in Older Adults written by Meredith Wallace Kazer and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This globally focused resource integrates sound research evidence, real-life case scenarios, and effective, practical strategies to address a key health care initiative of the 21st century--optimal quality of life for older adults. Distinguished by its broad and global outlook, the book includes contributions from an international cadre of widely published scholars and is designed for easy integration into traditional nursing education curricula. The book explores the experiences of older adults at home, and in acute and primary care, assisted living, nursing home and hospice environments and examines their needs for dealing with multiple, differentiated health, spiritual, and emotional considerations.

Author : Carmel Gallagher
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039113866
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Community Life of Older People in Ireland written by Carmel Gallagher and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a contemporary sociological account of the lives of older people in two different communities in Ireland, one urban and one rural. The book is based on primary research that examined the social and community participation of older people in Rathmore and Rathbeg using both ethnographic and survey approaches. The data presented provides insights into the nature of a community in a rapidly changing society and into older people's contributions to that community. It points to realms of activity that offer genuine meaning and value in older people's lives. A model of connectedness is developed in the study that identifies key characteristics and processes involved in sociability and solidarity within neighbourhoods and communities. A typology of ten relational patterns describes the different ways in which older adults may be connected within their communities. The author proposes an explanatory framework for understanding the complex and varied connections between people in communities. The book also demonstrates what older people in Ireland perceive as a good life.

Author : Charles Richard Boddington Joyce
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9789057024252
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Individual Quality of Life written by Charles Richard Boddington Joyce and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rubric "Quality of Life" first came to the explicit attention of the medical profession a little over thirty years ago. Despite the undoubted fact that each one of us has his or her own Quality of Life, be it good or bad, there is still no general agreement about its definition, or the manner in which it should be evaluated. Although much has been written about quality of life, this work has been largely concerned with population-based studies, especially in health policy & health economics. The importance of individual quality of life has been neglected, in part because of a failure to define quality of life itself with sufficient care, in part perhaps because of a belief that it is impossible to develop a meaningful method of measuring individual variables. It is a fundamental belief of the editors of this book that the primary focus of quality of life is & must continue to be the individual, who alone can define it & assess its changing personal significances. The individual perspective is of vital importance not only to patients but to their doctors too, & is more & more frequently proposed as the most meaningful measure of outcome in clinical research, especially in non-remitting or chronic conditions. Workers who wish to consider wider aspects of influences on the illnesses suffered by individuals & the health care that they receive will find much to stimulate them in the methods of documentation proposed in this book. Those mainly concerned with population samples rather than individuals may also find the sensitive methods of investigation proposed here not only to be applicable to their own areas of interest, but also rewarding in perhaps unexpected ways.