What we do

The IRH Research Department conducts a variety of projects in a number of fields, including:

Health Impact Assessment

• Rapid Health Impact Assessment of Maesincla Integrated Children’s Centre, Caernarfon
• A health impact assessment of the foot and mouth outbreak on the health and well-being of people in Wales

Evaluation

• Client Satisfaction Survey - Powys Safer Sex Enterprise

• Out Of Hours Care Study
• Evaluation of the Volunteering on Prescription Pilot
• Evaluation of the Farming & Rural Health Partnership

Integrated Impact Assessment

• Toolkit for Integrated Impact Assessment

Informing policy

• The causes and effects of rural stress in East Anglia
• The impact of rurality on referral to the Cancer Genetic Service Wales (CGSW)
• FARM CHILD UK
• Strategic Review of the Health Sector in Wales

Research

• Intermediate Care 2005
• Consultation in Communities First areas
• Unrecognised psychiatric morbidity

Rural Proofing

• Rural Proofing for Health

Strengthening the evidence base

• Rural Health Research Intelligence Programme
• Health Data: A Health Check
• The nature of rural general practice in the UK - a literature review

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