Results from Ireland North and South's 2022 report card on physical activity for children and adolescents.

Background: The Ireland North and South Report Card on Physical Activity (PA) for Children and Adolescents aims to monitor progress in PA participation across a range of internationally established indicators.

Methods: Data were collated for 11 indicators and graded following the harmonised Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance report card process. Six representative studies (sample size range n = 898 to n = 15,557) were primarily used in the grading, with many indicators supplemented with additional studies and reports.

Odds of gambling among adolescents: a secondary analysis of the cross-sectional European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs.

Background: Gambling among adolescents is associated with gambling disorder in adulthood. This study investigated factors associated with gambling and excessive gambling in adolescents.

Methods: This secondary analysis of the cross-sectional European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) used nationally representative data from the Irish cohort of the 2019 ESPAD wave.

Knowledge, attitudes and practices of Irish doctors regarding stop smoking care and electronic cigarettes.

Background: Smoking continues to cause harm on a huge scale in Ireland. Doctors can help this harm through providing safe, effective and clinically sound stop smoking care, but the needs of Irish doctors in this area are largely uncharted.

Aims: We assessed the knowledge, attitudes and practices of Irish doctors regarding stop smoking care and electronic cigarettes.

Sunburn, Sun Safety and Indoor Tanning Among Schoolchildren in Ireland.

We present patterns of sunburn, sun safety behaviors and indoor tanning bed use in a nationally representative sample of schoolchildren aged 10-17. These behaviors were explored across gender, age, and social class groups. Within the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Ireland study, 10,271 young people (aged 13.

Factors associated with changes in consumption among smokers and alcohol drinkers during the COVID-19 'lockdown' period.

Background: The impact of the COVID-19 public health social measures (PHSM) on health behaviours is poorly understood. We aimed to identify factors associated with changes in alcohol and tobacco consumption during the strictest period of PHSM 'lockdown'.

Methods: Logistic regression analysis was conducted using secondary data from the Central Statistics Office Social Impact Survey collected during the first lockdown in Ireland (23 April- 1 May 2020).

Shaping Policy on Chronic Diseases through National Policy Dialogs in CHRODIS PLUS.

Policy dialogs are deliberative dialogue that gather policy makers and relevant stakeholders from across disciplines to discuss a topic of mutual interest. They typically serve as a single element in a broader policymaking cycle, either informing the content of new policy or forming a component of policy evaluation and review. In the joint action CHRODIS PLUS, national policy dialogs were conducted in fourteen EU Member States.

The association of cold weather and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the island of Ireland between 1984 and 2007.

Background: This study aimed to assess the relationship between cold temperature and daily mortality in the Republic of Ireland (ROI) and Northern Ireland (NI), and to explore any differences in the population responses between the two jurisdictions.

Methods: A time-stratified case-crossover approach was used to examine this relationship in two adult national populations, between 1984 and 2007. Daily mortality risk was examined in association with exposure to daily maximum temperatures on the same day and up to 6 weeks preceding death, during the winter (December-February) and an extended cold period (October-March), using distributed lag models.