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Health Policy - Epidemiology and the development of health care systems with changing nature of disease - Personal & public responsibility for health maintenance - Development of the Irish health care system in comparative perspectives - Health care funding systems - Inequalities in health care – causes and consequences - Life expectancy rates and the quality of life - Challenges to health care systems: cardiovascular illnesses, cancer, and dementia. - Complexities of inter-action between health care systems and other support systems, particularly personal care systems - Role of carers & support for carers - Professional power of medical profession - Implementation & non-implementation of health policy proposals
Mental health policy - Ireland in the Global Context; - Historical background to mental health policy and service provision – key themes and developments; - Emergence of the Disability Movement, deinstitutionalisation – drivers and obstacles; - The Discovery of Recovery; - Patients, Users and Survivors – the rise of social movements in the field of mental health policy
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