Irish Travellers suffer a disproportionate burden of physical health conditions, review finds

In a review published in the open access journal BMJ Open Trinity researchers, led by Dr. Julie Broderick, head of discipline of physiotherapy, school of medicine, have presented findings showing that Irish Travellers suffer a disproportionate burden of physical health conditions with common conditions like metabolic syndrome, asthma, bronchitis, and tuberculosis 2–3 times more prevalent in Travellers compared to the general Irish population.