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Healthy Ireland Local Government Coordinators experience the benefits from engaging placement students
At Healthy Ireland Local Government, the importance of learning is uppermost on our agenda. We learn from our communities, colleagues, people in partner organisations and from academia.
Our latest learning source are the four students that were engaged on work experience in Kilkenny, Louth, Meath and Waterford who have been integral parts of service deliver for a semester in the third year of their degree courses. Timea, Lauren, Weronika and JJ worked with their local Healthy Ireland Coordinators successfully delivering the health and wellbeing message in their communities.
Healthy Meath Initiative Offers Free Health Checks in Local Pharmacies
To support planning for the Healthy Ireland Fund Round 4 programme of work, an extensive public and stakeholder consultation and research process was undertaken between October 2022 and January 2023 by Healthy Meath. Several localised health issues pertaining to the area of chronic diseases were identified, including: poor access to GP services; high myocardial infarction rates; overweight and obesity; nutrition; healthy eating; high levels of chronic disease; areas of deprivation; and the impact of the social determinants of health within the County. The evidence gathered throughout the research and consultation process identified that a chronic disease risk management programme in a community pharmacy setting would be beneficial to the population of County Meath.