Olga Anne Cleary

• PhD Health Services Research
• Lecturer at Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Introduction: Co-design has been cited as playing a major role in the future of effectiveintegrated care, however, there is a lack of reporting and reflection on the methodsused. Information sharing is fundamental when working in integrated care, howeversharing across professions, service settings and localities can be complex. Throughco-design, we...

This IPH report (2013) (prepared for the ROI Department of Health) presents findings from the National Consultation on Rare Disease overseen by the Institute of Public Health in Ireland on behalf of the Department of Health to inform the development of Ireland’s first National Rare Disease Plan. In 2009, the Council of the European Union recommende...

A Tobacco-Free Future – An all-island report on tobacco, inequalities and childhood 2013 reveals declines in smoking rates among both children and pregnant women over the past decade, both North and South of the border. This report published by the Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH) and the TobaccoFree Research Institute Ireland (TFRI), sh...

Multimorbidity is common in the older population, but the impact of combinations of chronic conditions on disability and quality of life (QoL) is not well known. This analysis explores the effect of specific combinations of chronic diseases on disability, QoL and self-rated health (SRH). We used data from two population representative cross-section...