Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 October 2016

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare

Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion

9:00 am

Photo of Hildegarde NaughtonHildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes. I read the Harvard study, which examined race, ethnicity and poverty in terms of having an effect on whether people were well or had ill health. The report also stated that geography was often not taken into account when considering the divides between those who were healthy and those who were not. Has Dr. Burke considered geography in the Irish context?

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