Technical Report - Donegal Traveller's Project

All Ireland Traveller Health StudyCommentaryTravellers rate their general health in a more positive manner than comparable populations in SLAN2002 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 theirhealth as fair or poor, in comparison with the other data sources. Overall, 18.9% of ROI and 13.9% of NITravellers 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 healthTravellers(ROI)(n=3,344)Under 30 years :Rate health as excellent orvery good (%)Rate health as fair or poor(%)30-44 years :Rate health as excellent orvery good (%)Rate health as fair or poor(%)45-64 yearsRate health as excellent orvery good (%)Rate health as fair or poor(%)65 and olderRate health as excellent orvery good (%)Rate health as fair or poor(%)Travellers(NI)(n=787)SLAN 2002medicalcardholders(n=1,610)SLAN 2007medicalcardholders(n=3,439)Lifewaysmedicalcardholders(n=510)INSIGHT‘07medicalcardholders(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%206