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All Ireland Traveller Health Study Commentary The AITHS surveyed specific age groups of children (5, 9 and 14-year-olds) because comparable Irish data on these ages were available. The following comparisons are drawn from three sources of data on Irish children: for the 5-year-olds: the 5-year-old children of the medical card holders in Lifeways; for the 9-year-old: the Middle Childhood Study of children aged 9-10 from the HBSC 2006 study (Kelly et al., 2008) and the 9-year-old survey from the NLSC/GUI (focusing on the children in social class 5 and 6 where possible); and for the 14-year-olds: the HBSC 2006 data on 12-14-year-olds. Infant birth weight as described in the AITHS and Lifeways studies is shown in Table 6. In the 2007 Irish Perinatal statistics (ESRI, 2009), 68.7% of newborn infants weighed between 3 and 4 kg. ROI Travellers had a higher prevalence of low birth weight infants than did the general population. Table 245: Birth weight of the survey child Infant weight Traveller (ROI) (n=1,223) Traveller (NI) (n=157) Lifeways medical card (n=188) ESRI 2007 national perinatal statistics (n=69,318)
Health Survey Findings Figure 12: Number of women who report having breastfed any child, of the women who have had a child, in the AITHS and SLAN studies. 60 50 40 % of women 30 20 10 0 All Travellers SLAN 07 GMS All SLAN 07 All Travellers SLAN 07 GMS All SLAN 07 All Travellers SLAN 07 GMS All SLAN 07 All Travellers SLAN 07 GMS All SLAN 07 Under 30 30 to 44 45 to 64 65 and over In total, 90.3% of ROI and 97.3% of NI Travellers reported that their child did not have an ongoing chronic health problem, illness or disability. From the 2008-2009 NI Continuous Household survey, 94% of children in the general NI population and 90.9% of the NI children of semi-skilled or unskilled workers also reported no long-term illness. Asthma was the commonest reported chronic health condition in Traveller children, and this finding is similar to data from the general Irish population. A recent report (Manning et al., 2007) indicates that 21.6% of 13 to 14-year-old children in the general ROI population reported ever having asthma. Parents in the AITHS were asked to rate their child’s current health (Table 246). There are more ‘Excellent’ ratings in the AITHS groups than in the comparative datasets, although the different methods of data ascertainment in the HBSC study must be borne in mind. In the HBSC, data were collected from the children themselves, not their parents or guardians, as in the AITHS. 195
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