Resource Booklet for Defining Target Populations in Community-based Research in the Republic of Ireland

This booklet is a research tool which details available sources to define a target population for researchers in community-based and population health research in the Republic of Ireland. Twenty two key websites are identified and explained, and links are provided to relevant publications and reports from these websites. A case study illustration, to identify and define a proposed target population, is described step by step in the second part of the booklet. The booklet was completed in September 2014 and was supported by a Wellcome Trust Summer Student Scholarship. Researchers planning projects in population health research and/or community-based research will benefit from this booklet, which provides details of sources to define the numbers and characteristics of a target population of interest in the Republic of Ireland. This booklet will als  be of use to persons working in Public Health, particularly those involved in health prevention programmes.