Technical Report - Donegal Traveller's Project

All Ireland Traveller Health StudyTable 211: Where do you get your information about health? (NI ONLY). By age group(Questionnaire item C2_1)Under 30n=20630–44n=10645 +n=71GP 88.3% 91.5% 87.3%Health Visitor 3.9% 9.4% 8.5%Traveller Community Health Workers 5.3% 12.3% 11.3%Primary Health Care Projects 3.4% 5.7% 4.2%Traveller Organisations 6.3% 7.5% 9.9%Health Promotion Agency 2.4% 0.9% 4.2%Health Organisations 1.9% 6.6% 11.3%Internet/web 1.9% 2.8% 0.0%Family/friends 36.4% 33.0% 38.0%Media 5.8% 1.9% 0.0%Help lines 2.9% 5.7% 7.0%Other 1.9% 7.5% 8.5%Most people felt their opportunities to access services were about the same as everyone else. Forinstance 72.3% in ROI and 73.5% in NI thought their access to A & E was the same, with 14.9% in ROIand 17.9% in NI rating their access as worse, and 12.8% in ROI and 8.6% in NI as better, than everyoneelse. The views of men and women were comparable on this point and the oldest respondents weresomewhat more likely to rate their access as the same as others. There was no real difference in patternaccording to the specified service.170