M D Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 3877396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M D Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | M D |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6309-4866 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Community partnership lessons learned from the You & Me
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05589376. Registered 21 October 2022
Social disconnection correlates of a “Wish to Die” among a large community-dwelling cohort of older adults
Introduction: Social disconnection and deaths by suicide among older adults are both important public health concerns, particularly in the context of ageing populations. The association between death ideation and behaviours, and social disconnection is well established and both functional and structural social relationships have been identified as predictive of suicide-related thoughts and behaviours. The "Wish to Die" (WTD) involves thoughts of …
Examining the relationship between religious involvement and psychological health, loneliness, and well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic among community dwelling older adults living in Ireland
During the COVID-19 pandemic and first lockdown in Ireland, public health restrictions created a barrier to in person religious participation. The aim of this paper is to understand the effect this had on psychological health. Data were from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). The final sample was made up of 3044 adults living in Ireland aged 60 years and older. Relationships between religious participation and psychological health we…
Enhancing Community Engagement in Research
C OVID-19 has shed light on the need for community-engaged research to fuel crisis and emergency risk communication in underserved settings, promote timely and effective access to testing and vaccination for marginalized communities, and reduce disparities related to leveraging data and for communication, dissemination, and building trust. 1-3However, unethical and inappropriate research practice involving underserved communities, including histo…
An investigation of what protective individual- and community-level factors are associated with life satisfaction in middle-aged and older family carers in Ireland
Background: Family care plays an essential role in providing care in society. However, caring can cause stress, and mental and physical responses to caring vary widely. Different outcomes for carers may reflect different approaches or adaptability to caring and their ability to maintain or recover their mental health and wellbeing following an adverse event (psychosocial resilience). We aim to identify factors that may promote psychosocial resili…
You & Me
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05455190 . Registered 13 July 2022
Public health insurance and mortality in the older population
The role of citizen science in addressing plastic pollution
Globally, the number of citizen science clean-up projects, such as beach cleans, is increasing in an effort to reduce the amount of plastic pollution in the environment. Such activities offer the opportunity to gather insightful data on plastic abundance, distribution and composition. This information is key for informing effective management strategies aimed at reducing input but little work has been conducted to examine the challenges faced by …
More than health
From Labour Migrant to Stay-at-Home Mother? Childcare and Return to Work among Migrant Mothers from the EU Accession Countries in Ireland
Previous research on the labour market integration of migrants from EU Accession countries has primarily viewed migrants as individual economic actors, despite their increasing role in family formation. In this contribution, mothers' return to work after birth is analysed using data from the Irish childhood prospective cohort study Growing Up in Ireland. Families from the Accession countries appear to have little access to non-parental childcare …
The clustering of health behaviours in Ireland and their relationship with mental health, self-rated health and quality of life
The current study identifies discernible patterns of lifestyle behaviours in the Irish population which are similar to those of our European counterparts. Healthier clusters (Former Smokers, Temperate and Healthy Lifestyle) reported higher levels of energy vitality, lower levels of psychological distress, better self-rated health and better quality of life. In contrast, those in the Multiple Risk Factor cluster had the lowest levels of energy and…
The men's health policy contexts in Australia, the UK and Ireland
The state of men's health, internationally, is a deep public health concern. Despite pressure from the World Health Organisation that all health policy should consider the specific needs of both men and women through their push for ‘gender mainstreaming’, and increased interest in men's health, there have been relatively few gendered policy responses relating to men's health. In this article, we compare the men's health policy contexts in Austral…
A synopsis of land use, land-use change and forestry (Lulucf) under the Kyoto Protocol and Marrakech Accords
A synopsis of land use, land-use change and forestry (Lulucf) under the Kyoto Protocol and Marrakech Accords
From Labour Migrant to Stay-at-Home Mother? Childcare and Return to Work among Migrant Mothers from the EU Accession Countries in Ireland
Previous research on the labour market integration of migrants from EU Accession countries has primarily viewed migrants as individual economic actors, despite their increasing role in family formation. In this contribution, mothers' return to work after birth is analysed using data from the Irish childhood prospective cohort study Growing Up in Ireland. Families from the Accession countries appear to have little access to non-parental childcare …
The role of citizen science in addressing plastic pollution
Globally, the number of citizen science clean-up projects, such as beach cleans, is increasing in an effort to reduce the amount of plastic pollution in the environment. Such activities offer the opportunity to gather insightful data on plastic abundance, distribution and composition. This information is key for informing effective management strategies aimed at reducing input but little work has been conducted to examine the challenges faced by …
A synopsis of land use, land-use change and forestry (Lulucf) under the Kyoto Protocol and Marrakech Accords
The men's health policy contexts in Australia, the UK and Ireland
The state of men's health, internationally, is a deep public health concern. Despite pressure from the World Health Organisation that all health policy should consider the specific needs of both men and women through their push for ‘gender mainstreaming’, and increased interest in men's health, there have been relatively few gendered policy responses relating to men's health. In this article, we compare the men's health policy contexts in Austral…
The clustering of health behaviours in Ireland and their relationship with mental health, self-rated health and quality of life
The current study identifies discernible patterns of lifestyle behaviours in the Irish population which are similar to those of our European counterparts. Healthier clusters (Former Smokers, Temperate and Healthy Lifestyle) reported higher levels of energy vitality, lower levels of psychological distress, better self-rated health and better quality of life. In contrast, those in the Multiple Risk Factor cluster had the lowest levels of energy and…
More than health
From Labour Migrant to Stay-at-Home Mother? Childcare and Return to Work among Migrant Mothers from the EU Accession Countries in Ireland
Previous research on the labour market integration of migrants from EU Accession countries has primarily viewed migrants as individual economic actors, despite their increasing role in family formation. In this contribution, mothers' return to work after birth is analysed using data from the Irish childhood prospective cohort study Growing Up in Ireland. Families from the Accession countries appear to have little access to non-parental childcare …
The role of citizen science in addressing plastic pollution
Globally, the number of citizen science clean-up projects, such as beach cleans, is increasing in an effort to reduce the amount of plastic pollution in the environment. Such activities offer the opportunity to gather insightful data on plastic abundance, distribution and composition. This information is key for informing effective management strategies aimed at reducing input but little work has been conducted to examine the challenges faced by …
Public health insurance and mortality in the older population
An investigation of what protective individual- and community-level factors are associated with life satisfaction in middle-aged and older family carers in Ireland
Background: Family care plays an essential role in providing care in society. However, caring can cause stress, and mental and physical responses to caring vary widely. Different outcomes for carers may reflect different approaches or adaptability to caring and their ability to maintain or recover their mental health and wellbeing following an adverse event (psychosocial resilience). We aim to identify factors that may promote psychosocial resili…
You & Me
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05455190 . Registered 13 July 2022
Social disconnection correlates of a “Wish to Die” among a large community-dwelling cohort of older adults
Introduction: Social disconnection and deaths by suicide among older adults are both important public health concerns, particularly in the context of ageing populations. The association between death ideation and behaviours, and social disconnection is well established and both functional and structural social relationships have been identified as predictive of suicide-related thoughts and behaviours. The "Wish to Die" (WTD) involves thoughts of …
Examining the relationship between religious involvement and psychological health, loneliness, and well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic among community dwelling older adults living in Ireland
During the COVID-19 pandemic and first lockdown in Ireland, public health restrictions created a barrier to in person religious participation. The aim of this paper is to understand the effect this had on psychological health. Data were from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). The final sample was made up of 3044 adults living in Ireland aged 60 years and older. Relationships between religious participation and psychological health we…
Enhancing Community Engagement in Research
C OVID-19 has shed light on the need for community-engaged research to fuel crisis and emergency risk communication in underserved settings, promote timely and effective access to testing and vaccination for marginalized communities, and reduce disparities related to leveraging data and for communication, dissemination, and building trust. 1-3However, unethical and inappropriate research practice involving underserved communities, including histo…
Community partnership lessons learned from the You & Me
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05589376. Registered 21 October 2022
Medicine (10 works) · Public health (6 works) · Gerontology (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Mental health (4 works) · Nursing (4 works)