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Health Survey Findings
Table 209: Where do you get your information about health? (ROI ONLY). Table presented by
age group. (Questionnaire item C2_1)
Under 30
n=758
30–44
n=420
45 +
n=397
GP 90.5% 91.4% 92.9%
PHN 26.0% 27.9% 30.5%
Traveller Community Health Workers 32.1% 26.2% 27.7%
Primary Health Care Projects 25.7% 25.5% 21.7%
Traveller Organisations 15.0% 12.9% 13.1%
HSE 10.8% 12.6% 12.8%
Dept. Health & Children 4.2% 5.5% 4.3%
Health Organisations 2.4% 3.6% 4.3%
Internet/web 3.3% 2.1% 1.3%
Family/friends 33.5% 27.6% 33.2%
Media 13.6% 14.5% 12.3%
Help lines 0.8% 0.5% 0.8%
Other 2.0% 1.9% 3.3%
Table 210: Where do you get your information about health? (NI ONLY)
(Questionnaire item C2_1)
Male
n=205
Female
n=178
Total
n=383
Total NI GP 86.8% 91.6% 89.0%
NI Health Visitor 2.0% 11.2% 6.3%
NI Traveller Community Health Workers 7.3% 9.6% 8.4%
NI Primary Health Care Projects 2.4% 6.2% 4.2%
NI Traveller Organisations 6.8% 7.9% 7.3%
NI Health Promotion Agency 1.5% 3.4% 2.3%
NI Health Organisations 3.4% 6.7% 5.0%
NI Internet/web 2.0% 1.7% 1.8%
NI Family/friends 35.6% 36.0% 35.8%
NI Media 2.0% 5.6% 3.7%
NI Help lines 2.4% 6.7% 4.4%
NI Other 5.4% 3.9% 4.7%
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