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Irish health and nutrition websites

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Central Statistics Office
Department of Health The Department of Health's statutory role is to support the Minister in the formulation and evaluation of policies for the health services. It also has a role in the strategic planning of health services.
Food Standards Authority Ireland The principal function of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland is to protect consumers by leading a collaborative food safety community to continuously raise food standards and create a culture of excellence.
Health Promotion Unit This site contains recent research publications on health issues, lifestyle statistics and general health brochures
Health Research Board Useful for accessing relevant and up to date health data and research. It also includes links to HRB publications
Healthy Ireland Healthy Ireland is our national framework for action to improve the health and wellbeing of the people of Ireland. Its main focus is on prevention and keeping people healthier for longer. Healthy Ireland takes a whole-of-Government and whole-of-society approach to improving health and wellbeing and the quality of people’s lives.
Healthy Ireland food plans and guides
HSE Reports and Publications Including: Corporate Reports; Children and Young People; Disability Services; Environmental Health; Health Protection & Public Health; Health Topics and Conditions; Hospitals; Non Statutory Sector; Human Resources; Mental Health and Suicide Prevention; Older People Services; Policies and Procedures; Primary Care; Social Inclusion, Asylum Seekers, Travellers;
Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute The Irish Nutrition & Dietetic Institute (INDI) is the professional organisation for dietitians in Ireland, representing over 645 members who work in many areas of healthcare.
Irish Universities Nutrition Alliance (IUNA) The Irish Universities Nutrition Alliance (IUNA) is a formal alliance bringing together the nutrition expertise of University College Cork, University College Dublin, Munster Technological University and Technological University Dublin. A key focus of the IUNA since its foundation has been the development in the Republic of Ireland of national databases of dietary intake and health status through national nutrition surveys of the population from age 1 to 90 years. These databases are used widely for research related to nutrition, public health and food safety, and support the work of agencies that are responsible for food and nutrition policy and regulation in Ireland and the EU. These surveys have been funded primarily through the Irish Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) competitive research funding programmes.
Lenus LENUS the Irish health repository for the HSE. This gateway to health information is provided by the HSE Regional Library & Information Services in Ireland and includes archives of the old Irish Health Board and the HSE as well as other Irish health publications and research articles.
Recommended dietary allowances for Ireland: 1999 / Food Safety Authority of Ireland Record on Lenus from FSAI
Safefood safefood is an all-island implementation body set up under the British-Irish Agreement with a general remit to promote awareness and knowledge of food safety and nutrition issues on the island of Ireland.

UK & international health and nutrition websites

Bioethics.com
British Dietetic Association The BDA is a trade union and professional body representing its professional, educational, public and workplace members' interests and provides a large amount of information for anyone interested in food and nutrition as well as dietetics as a career.
Department of Health UK
DOAJ Directory of open access journals
European Food Safety Authority EFSA provides independent scientific advice to the decision makers who regulate food safety in Europe.
European Health Information Gateway WHO is the authority responsible for public health within the United Nations system. The WHO Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe) is one of WHO’s six regional offices around the world
Free Life Science and Health books online From NCBI, Bookshelf provides free access to books and documents in life science and healthcare.
Harvard health Blog
Medline Plus (Health Information for Public) A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
Medscape TOP MEDICAL NEWS
Public Library of Science: Medicine PLOS Medicine is the leading open-access medical journal
PUBMED SUBSET FOR DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS The Dietary Supplement subset is a joint project between the NIH National Library of Medicine (NLM®) and ODS
Sage Journals
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The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Library The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Library is a repository for publications and information for policy makers, health professionals, health scientists and others with a practical or academic interest in evidence based healthcare
World Health Organisation: Publicationx The primary role of WHO is to direct and coordinate international health within the United Nations’ system

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