About Us
What We Do
Cairde regularly networks with statutory and non-statutory organisations to highlight the experience ethnic minorities have of health services at a policy level.
Partnerships between patients, patient advocacy organisations and healthcare providers have been internationally recognised for their importance.
The needs and priorities of patients are identified in these partnerships and woven into health service policies.
Patients are also a source of inspiration.
When health service providers include patients and their representatives in their strategies, access to unique perspectives becomes available. These perspectives increase accountability in the system. They also improve healthcare design and delivery.
In addition, we initiate and run our research projects. These are related to healthcare delivery and outcomes for the minority ethnic communities we serve.
By engaging Roma women in a unique co‐design education and research process, this study aims to identify barriers to accessing care faced by this minority community and understand their experiences of maternity services to enhance equity, accessibility and cultural responsiveness in maternal healthcare.
This study outlines the co‐design approach taken to engagement with women from the Roma community to capture their experience of maternity and neonatal care in Ireland. The findings of this study will be used to assess the relevance and completeness of measures of quality and safety of maternity care in capturing these experiences.
Improving Mental Health Engagement for Migrant and Ethnic Minority Women was
supported by the Department of Health and developed with the DCU Cultural Humility in Mental Health Study Group.
This research outlines how migrant and ethnic minority women understand mental health engagement, barriers they experience and highlights key pathways to improving equity.
This national report is part of the Work Package 2 of the Roma Influences Network Project: “Breaking the circle of early marriages and early motherhood in Romа Communities”, and in particular of Activity 2.2: “National research on early marriages and early motherhood in Roma community in 4 countries“.
The aim of this report is to contribute to a better understanding of early marriage and early motherhood, outlining the legal framework and policies and the situation of the Roma community.
