New Resource: Health Well

Spotlight on the Health Well - better intelligence, better decisions, better health

Health Well is an all-island (Ireland and Northern Ireland) health information website that promotes health and wellbeing by supporting evidence-informed decision making.

It is managed by the Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH) in collaboration with the HRB Centre for Health and Diet Research (UCC/UCD) in Ireland, and the UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health (NI) (QUB) in Northern Ireland.

Health Well will help you:

• Access the information you need
• Work collaboratively across the web (by hosting webgroups and supporting key health networks)
• Use information more effectively (with online analysis tools and support for knowledge translation)

It also aims to build the health intelligence capacity of public health workers and health-related organisations.

In its initial phase, Health Well focuses on chronic conditions, obesity and fuel poverty. Health Well covers population health as well as health and social services.

Health information resources on Health Well are grouped into three broad categories:

Catalogues and cache

• A central cache including details of over 22,000 health information resources drawn from websites across Ireland and the UK
  
•  Six structured catalogues containing information resources of different types (research and evaluation reports, policies and guidance, health interventions, numerical data sources, knowledge translation tools and contacts). Currently, the catalogues contain nearly 1,400 resources 

Research literature

• Article summaries drawn from around 180 Open Access Journals News

• News articles drawn from around 170 relevant news sources

•  Around 70 health-related publications such as newsletters and forums/blogs

Access the Health Well

Access the Obesity Hub