Archive for September, 2010
Health & well-being of ethnic minorities
Balbriggan has one of the largest ethnic minority populations in Ireland per capita. From January 2010, a branch of Cairde’s Health Information and Advocacy Centre was set up in Balbriggan to provide individual advocacy and information to ethnic minorities. The consultation process initiated by Cairde and supported by European Year for Combating Poverty and Social [...]
Informed parenthood
Reoccurring issues related to health & wellbeing of pregnant women, single mothers and parents of Polish origins living in Ireland have been noted by those working in the area of information provision and advocacy. They are related to knowledge about services and entitlements as well as law enforcement: Information is often spread by word of [...]
4 STEPS 2 RECOVERY
The Government is planning €3 billion adjustments (mostly spending cuts) in Budget 2011. Cutting vital public services, taxing low paid workers, cutting social welfare and capital investment are being presented as the only options to reduce the budget deficit. The Community Platform rejects this notion and presents real alternatives in the form of tax reform [...]
Health Forum 7th Sept.
Ethnic Minority Health Forum took place on Tuesday 7th September 2010. Maeve Cusack, Screening Promotion Manager at the National Cancer Screening Service in HSE presented an overview of cervical cancer and breast cancer screening programmes and the work of the Screening Programmes team around the country. Free smear tests are available for women age 25-60, [...]
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