City Healthy Dublin : A Review Of Progress

City Healthy Dublin aligns with Healthy Ireland, the National Framework for Improved Health and Wellbeing 2013-2025. This framework was developed with the goal of improving the health and well-being of the Irish population at all stages in life. In order to provide lifelong wellness, the City Healthy Dublin framework promotes a healthier lifestyle through Being Active, Staying Connected, Switching Off, and Eating Well. Using an integrated use of Dublin City Council staff and resources, this initiative aims to maximize opportunities where people can be supported and empowered in the environments where they live and work so that they can achieve their fullest potential.

Keeping Active

Winter is a time when staying active and spending time outside are crucial to maintaining good physical and mental health. Check out the links below for the list of City Healthy Dublin Council’s Sport and Leisure centers, as well as a Facebook page with several exercises, cycling options, or links for one of the simplest and most effective activities – walking.

Managing your Mood

During this difficult time, it’s normal to feel anxious or stressed. However, there are many things we can do to help us take care of our mental health and well-being and to stay healthy. The following is a list of support services.

Conference In Dublin’s fair city

Stephen Donnelly TD (pictured right), the Minister of Health of the Republic of Ireland, broadcast a message of support and appreciation to the eye care professions. The fact that the conference took place in Dublin was a testament to the importance of optometry in Ireland on the international stage and a key part of plans to provide eye care services to community practices in the coming years, increasing accessibility and ensuring that Irish practitioners have the skills needed to deliver eye care. Officials of the HSE are working with my officials to contract more services to community optometrists.

ECOO

ECOO General Assembly and committee meetings were presided over by Dr. Cindy Tromans. Unsurprisingly, there was a lot to discuss. Participants discussed myopia management, orthoptics, and charging for optometric services as well as symptoms of long Covid, the provision of support for Ukrainians, and a new initiative to help Hungarian orphanages. There was also a need to develop sustainability guidelines.

Paul York, account manager at GfK Retail and Technology, gave a keynote presentation on the European optical market as it recovers from the pandemic of Covid-19. In his view, contact lenses, spectacle lenses, and frames globally were enjoying a healthy recovery by the end of last year after the slump caused by pandemic lockdowns. Visit Optics 2022 trends online to view GfK’s figures.

FB removal

Dr. Declan Hovenden, head of optometry and program chair at TUD, reminded practitioners to always document visual acuity before foreign body removal and to confirm a negative Seidel sign after removal, during his excellent session on foreign body removal. Later, the delegates had the chance to operate on a dummy eye using surgical spears, an eye spud, a needle, and an Alger brush. City Healthy Dublin should be 25 gauge, approach the cornea tangentially, and enter just a fraction deeper than the foreign body. Hovenden recommended using an antibiotic, a bandage contact lens, lubricating drops, and ointment at night to prevent corneal erosion.