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Exploring the sugar-sweetened beverage tax (SSBT) pass-through rate in the Irish hospitality sector
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2024)Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) supports the use of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes (SSBTs) as a fiscal lever to help reduce sugar consumption and tackle obesity. Obesity is associated with a range of adverse ... -
Escaping the Echo Chamber: The Night Method and the Role of Disruptive Research in Suicide Studies
(Jacobs Publishing House, 2024-06-03)Traditional approaches to suicide research often emphasise individual pathology, reinforcing conventional medical and religious narratives. Critical suicidology challenges these approaches, advocating for diverse voices ... -
The need for further alcohol control research: A response to a functional magnetic resonance imaging study on alcohol warnings by Gallopel-Morvan et al.
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The Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation Short Form B (CORE SFB): Norms for an Irish Institute of Technology Student Sample
(Medicina Internacia Revuo, 2024-03-25)A study of student mental health was conducted in an Irish university level college prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. The study had two principal objectives. The first was to provide a baseline examination of student mental ... -
Zombies And Weapons: Examining Blog Responses To The Center For Disease Control & Prevention’s (CDC) ‘Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic’ Entertainment-Education Initiative
(Medicina Internacia Revuo, 2024-03-25)In 2011 the CDC developed an innovative pandemic preparedness initiative based on a zombie pandemic theme. Although of great interest, an unanticipated side-effect was a focus on weaponry & firearms. This research examines ... -
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) ‘Genie’ is out of the ‘Bottle’: Considering the Potential Impacts of AI on Public Health from a Climate Change and One Health Perspective
(JGPOH, 2024-02-21)Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers significant potential to improve health, medical and social care. It equally offers substantial opportunities in improving the education and training of health, medical and social ... -
Horizon Europe Applications: Time to consider the energy use impacts of AI on climate change
(Engineers Ireland, 2024-01-15)It is a little over a year ago since ChatGPT was launched in the public domain. In that relatively short period of time ChatGPT and its competitors have ignited an ongoing debate both within academia and the wider world. ... -
Resistance and Power in Irish Higher Education: ORCID and the Monitored University
(Elsevier, 2024-03)Purpose: Created in 2012 ORCID now enjoys global status as a Persistent Identifier (PID) in the academic community. The international literature has been generally positive towards this new piece of research infrastructure, ... -
Drawing it Properly: An Examination of Smoking Portrayals in Texts on How to Draw in the Noir Graphic Novel/Comic Book Style
(Universala Medicina Esperanto Asocio, 2023-06)Smoking remains a leading cause of mortality and morbidity globally. Therefore attention must be paid to the manner is which pro-smoking materials may serve to reflect, reinforce and ultimately reproduce smoking behaviours. ... -
Institutional status and identity dimensions to cardiovascular stress responses
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2023-05-23)This study aimed to examine the effect of shared social identity (i.e., whether the source of information about a stressor comes from an ingroup vs. outgroup member) and message content (i.e., whether people were informed ... -
Feigning Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Through Health-Washing: Gambling Industry Conflicts of Interest in Health Service Provision and Training in Ireland
(Universala Medicina Esperanto Asocio, 2022-08-30)The gambling industry in Ireland, and elsewhere continues to grow. Evidence of the nature and extent of the gambling problem in Ireland has started to emerge. In order to better understand the machinations, tactics and ... -
Condemning the War in Ukraine & the Need for Peace
(The Netherlands Press, 2022-03-23)
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