Project Acknowledgments, HBSC Ireland

HBSC 2006 was conducted in the Health Promotion Research Centre under the direction of Dr. Saoirse Nic Gabhainn, and funded by the Health Promotion Policy Unit of the Department of Health and Children as well as the Office for the Minister of Children. 

We acknowledge all the Parents and Children who consented and participated as well as the Management Authorities, Principals and Teachers in all schools who participated. We also acknowledge the contribution of the following staff of the Health Promotion Research Centre: Ms Catriona Boyle, Ms Patricia Brien, Ms Pauline Clerkin, Mr Greg Conlon, Ms Gabrielle Ferris,  Ms Tatziana Fries, Ms Sonja-Mareike Freiling, Ms Marie Galvin, Ms Aoife Gavin, Dr Colette Kelly, Mr Gerard Maloney, Dr Michal Molcho, Ms Geraldine Nolan, Ms Siobhan O’Higgins, Ms Elaine Shannon, Ms Lorraine Walker.

HBSC is an international study carried out in collaboration with WHO/EURO. The International Coordinator of HBSC is Professor Candace Currie (University of Edinburgh); Data Bank Manager: Professor Oddrun Samdal (University of Bergen).

The 2006 survey was conducted by Principal Investigators in 41 countries and regions: Austria (Wolfgang Dür), Belgium-Flemish (Lea Maes), Belgium-French (Danielle Piette), Bulgaria (Lidiya Vasileva), Canada (Will Boyce), Croatia (Marina Kuzman), Czech Republic (Ladislav Csémy), Denmark (Pernille Due), England (Antony Morgan), Estonia (Katrin Aasvee), Finland (Jorma Tynjälä), France (Emmanuelle Godeau), Germany (Klaus Hurrelmann), Greece (Anna Kokkevi), Greenland (Birgit Niclasen), Hungary (Ágnes Németh), Iceland (Thoroddur Bjarnason), Ireland (Saoirse Nic Gabhainn), Israel (Yossi Harel), Italy (Franco Cavallo), Latvia (Iveta Pudule), Lithuania (Apolinaras Zaborskis), Luxembourg (Yolande Wagener), Macedonia (Lina Kostorova Unkovska), Malta (Marianne Massa), Netherlands (Wilma Vollebergh), Norway (Oddrun Samdal), Poland (Joanna Mazur), Portugal (Margarida Gaspar De Matos), Romania (Adriana Baban), Russia (Alexander Komkov), Scotland (Candace Currie), Slovak Republic (Elena Morvicova), Slovenia (Helena Jericek), Spain (Carmen Moreno Rodriguez), Sweden (Ulla Marklund), Switzerland (Holger Schmid), Turkey (Oya Ercan), Ukraine (Olga Balakireva), United States (Ron Iannotti), Wales (Chris Roberts).  For details, see http://www.hbsc.org/

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“Health Behaviour in School-aged Children: WHO Collaborative Cross-National survey/study (HBSC)”.

HBSC is an international study carried out in collaboration with WHO/EURO. The International Coordinator of HBSC is Professor Candace Currie (University of Edinburgh); Data Bank Manager:  Professor Oddrun Samdal (University of Bergen). For details, see http://www.hbsc.org/.

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