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Dr Sheelagh Connolly Ph.D

Contact Details

Title Research Fellow
Address Icsg
Research Room 104
Cairnes Building
Nui Galway
Telephone: Ext. 5740
Email:
ei.yawlagiun@yllonnoc.haleehs

 

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Biography:

Sheelah Connolly completed an undergraduate degree in Economics at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), a Masters degree in Health Economics at the University of York and a PhD in Public Health at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB).  Sheelah has worked as a lecturer in Economics at NUIG and QUB, and a Research Fellow in the Centre for Public Health, QUB. She was a visiting researcher to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2008.  Sheelah is currently employed as a Research Fellow at the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology

Her research interests lie in the area of the social and socio-economic determinants of health, the measurement of socio-economic status in older populations and the economics of ageing. She has extensive experience in the analysis of longitudinal data, having worked on the England and Wales Longitudinal Study and the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study for a number of years. She recently completed a project funded by the Nuffield Trust looking at the impact of devolution on the health care systems of the UK. Sheelah is currently involved in a number of projects including an assessment of volunteerism in the Third Age, the development of a model to predict the demand for Long Term care in the North and South of Ireland and an assessment of the impact of income inequality at the small area level on health.
 

Selected Publications:

Connolly S, O’Reilly D, Rosato M, Cardwell C. (2011). Area of residence and alcohol-related mortality risk: A five-year follow-up study. Addiction 106 (1), 84-92. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03103.x/abstract [article]

Connolly S, O’Reilly D, Rosato M. (2010) House value as an indicator of cumulative wealth is strongly related to morbidity and mortality risk in older people: a census-based cross-sectional and longitudinal study. International Journal of Epidemiology 39, 383-391. http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/39/2/383.abstract [article]

Connolly S, O’Reilly D (2009). Variation in care home admission across area of Northern Ireland. Age & Ageing 38 (4), 461-465. http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/content/38/4/461.full [article]

 

     

Peer Reviewed Journals

Connolly S, O’Reilly D (2007) 'The contribution of migration to changes in the distribution of health over time: Five year follow up study in Northern Ireland'. Social Science And Medicine, 65 (5):1004-1011. [Details]
O’Reilly G, O’Reilly D, Rosato M, Connolly S (2007) 'Urban and rural variations in morbidity and mortality in Northern Ireland'. Bmc Public Health, 7 . [Details]
O’Reilly D, Rosato M, Connolly S (2007) 'Unlinked vital events in census-based longitudinal studies can bias subsequent analysis'. Journal Of Clinical Epidemiology, 61 (4):380-385. [Details]
Connolly S, O’Reilly D, Rosato M (2007) 'Increasing inequalities in health: Is it an artefact caused by the selective movement of people'. Social Science And Medicine, 64 (10):2008-2015. [Details]
O’Reilly D, Connolly S, Rosato M, Patterson C (2008) 'Is caring associated with an increased risk of mortality? A longitudinal study of 162,884 carers'. Social Science And Medicine, 67 (8):1282-1290. [Details]
O’Reilly D, Rosato M, Connolly S (2008) 'Area factors and suicide: 5-year follow-up of the Northern Ireland population'. British Journal Of Psychiatry, 192 :106-111. [Details]
•Kinnear H, Connolly S, Rosato M et al (2010) 'Are caregiving responsibilities associated with non-attendance at breast screening?'. Bmc Public Health, 10 . [Details]
Connolly S, Gillespie P, O'Shea, Cahill S, Pierce M. (2012) 'Estimating the economic and social costs of dementia in Ireland'. Dementia: The International Journal Of Social Research And Practice, . [DOI] [Details]
Connolly, S., Rosato, M., Kinnear, K., O'Reilly, D. (2011) 'Variation in mortality by country of birth in Northern Ireland: a record linkage study'. Health & Place, 17 (3):801-806. [Details]
Connolly, S., Rosato, M., O'Reilly, D. (2011) 'The effect of population movement on the spatial distribution of socio-economic and health status: analysis using the Northern Ireland Mortality Study'. Health Place, 17 (4):1007-1010. [Details]
Connolly, S., O'Reilly, D., Rosato, M. & Caldwell, C. (2011) 'Area of residence and alcohol-related mortality risk: a five-year follow up study'. Addiction, 106 (1):84-92. [Details]
Connolly, S., O'Reilly, D. & Rosato, M. (2010) 'House value as an indicator of cumulative wealth is strongly related to morbidity and mortality risk in older people: a census-based cross-sectional and longitudinal study'. International Journal of Epideiology, 39 :383-391. [Details]
Connolly, S. & O'Reilly, D. (2009) 'Variation in care home admission across area of Northern Ireland'. Age & Ageing, 38 (4):461-465. [Details]
                                                                                                                                     

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