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All Ireland Traveller Health Study
Commentary
Travellers rate their general health in a more positive manner than comparable populations in SLAN
2002 and Lifeways, but in a similarly positive way to the SC 5-6 group from SLAN 2007 (Table 250).
Of note however, is the high proportion of Traveller persons in the oldest age group who rate their
health as fair or poor, in comparison with the other data sources. Overall, 18.9% of ROI and 13.9% of NI
Travellers rate their health as fair or poor, similar to the 17% of all respondents in the available NI data
(The Continuous Household survey, 2008-2009) who rated their health as ‘not good’ (versus ‘Fairly Good’
and ‘Good’).
Table 250: Self-rating of health
Travellers
(ROI)
(n=3,344)
Under 30 years :
Rate health as excellent or
very good (%)
Rate health as fair or poor
(%)
30-44 years :
Rate health as excellent or
very good (%)
Rate health as fair or poor
(%)
45-64 years
Rate health as excellent or
very good (%)
Rate health as fair or poor
(%)
65 and older
Rate health as excellent or
very good (%)
Rate health as fair or poor
(%)
Travellers
(NI)
(n=787)
SLAN 2002
medical
card
holders
(n=1,610)
SLAN 2007
medical
card
holders
(n=3,439)
Lifeways
medical
card
holders
(n=510)
INSIGHT
‘07
medical
card
holders
(n=1,277)
63% 61.2% 52.3% 61.6% 50.4% 72.5%
9.5% 6.5% 15.2% 10.0% 4.2% 6.9%
61.4% 37.4% 47.1% 52.6% 55.8% 56.4%
16.7% 14.0% 18.0% 16.1% 15.6% 15.0%
30.2% 31.0% 24.5% 32.7% 35.8% 32.9%
35.6% 33.6% 34.2% 36.1% 19.0% 32.9%
19.9% 20.0% 26.2% 30.7% 37.4% 29.1%
49.2% 66.7% 36.4% 34.3% 21.5% 35.0%
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