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• Pfizer Health Index 2011 Octobr 2011 : 640 kB

  “The sixth Pfizer Health Index, which provides the most respected Barometer of Health Status and wellbeing in Ireland today, illustrates the rising  impact of the recession and the related downward spiral of health indicators. The study has a particular focus on female health and was launched on October 24^th” ... full report

• Health in the Workplace October 2011 : 5.29 MB

  “A new study among HR managers in Ireland emphasises how the approach to health in the workplace by employers needs to broaden and expand, with employees ever more needy in the deepening recession”

• The 2011 Lundbeck Mental Health Barometer JULY 2011 : 3.16 MB

  The 2011 Lundbeck Mental Health Barometer, the sixth in a series, illustrates a growing acceptance of the prevalence of mental health conditions in Ireland, but a continuing and deepening unease about facing up to these when confronted by them in everyday life. An unusual facet in 2011, as the recession deepens, is an escalating view that depression is primarily a male and youth phenomenon, illustrating a heightened probability of a more simplistic (and probably incorrect) interpretation of depression and its causes. This also suggests that society may be less conscious of or sensitive to  female and older experience of depression. FULL REPORT

• Pfizer Health Index 2010 September 2010 : 3.5 MB

  The 2010 Pfizer Index, in its fifth year of publication, adopts a specific focus on the impact on health of the ongoing recession.

• Pfizer Health Index September 2009 : 3.85 MB

  Winner of the Award for Excellence in Public Relations 2009.

• Pfizer Health Index, Benchmark March 2006 : 1.93 MB

  A detailed study of the state of the nations health, incorporating an overview of the numbers suffering from common illnesses and conditions such as arthritis cancer, blood pressure and diabetes.

• Mind Yourself - The Lundbeck Mental Health Barometer 2006 : 595 kB

  An overview of depression and mental illness in Ireland.

• The Real Truth About Beauty January 2005 : 360 kB

  A look at Irish women’s attitudes towards beauty: how it is defined, its portrayal in the media and the pressures to conform to stereotype. International comparisons are incorporated in a study commissioned by the Unilever brand.

• Irish and Global Health Perceptions September 2004 : 1.07 MB

  Behaviour & Attitudes, as part of the International Research Institutes Network, were one of 23 companies which fielded a Global Health Barometer in 2004.  The report sets Irish data into context, and illustrates the Irish as top of the Global league vis-à-vis health perceptions, but as having the 5th worse opinion of Government handling of the health system.