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Health and Society Blog Archive

Here you will find an archive of Health and Society Blog articles published before 1 May 2022, divided into their relevant categories.

Children and Families

Community Relations

Culture and Sport

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How has Arts Council NI COVID-19 emergency funding been distributed to arts organisations?

By James Bamford, Karen McCallion & Thomas Procter The Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI) has the role of distributing arts funding for the Department for Communities (DfC) from…
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How has COVID-19 Emergency Funding for the arts and culture Sectors in Northern Ireland been distributed?

By James Bamford & Karen McCallion This visualisation provides a snapshot of emergency funding provided to the arts and culture sectors in Northern Ireland. This funding is part of…

How can our culture sector ever recover from COVID-19?

This article examines some of the risks which COVID-19 has posed to the culture and heritage sectors in Northern Ireland, and assesses whether the support measures put in place…

Equality

The extension of healthy life expectancy is a key aim of the Active Ageing Strategy 2016-2021.

Ready for Ageing? How are policy makers approaching the challenges of an ageing population?

Population ageing has been identified as a major societal challenge common to most European countries, particularly in terms of health and social care provision. In view of this, the…

Human Rights in Northern Ireland: What if the Human Rights Act were repealed?

The Belfast Agreement in 1998 contained a comprehensive suite of human rights safeguards. These include the introduction of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to be accessible in…

Health and Social Care

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‘Exit’ from COVID-19 lockdown: Social distancing and face coverings to minimise the spread of the virus

Context The RaISe research paper ‘Exit’ from COVID-19 ‘lockdown’: Health-related issues (20 May 2020) contained sections on transmission of the virus SARS-CoV-2 and two of the key issues –…
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‘Exit’ from COVID-19 lockdown: Use of testing and contact tracing

The Assembly Research and Information Service (RaISe) has published a number of papers on testing for Sars-CoV-2 tracking and contact tracing, including ‘Testing for Sars-CoV-2 in the UK; and…
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Ten reasons to be cautious about using R to support decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic

  The risk is that a complicated number is released without context into a world that doesn’t know how to think about it. The ‘R number’ that most of…

Housing

Immigration

Third Sector

Welfare

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