International Journal of Public Health Blog
Program on Food Aid and Promotion of Healthy Nutrition – DIATROFI A large-scale initiative implemented in schools of underprivileged areas across Greece incorporating food aid, health promotion and research This is a guest...
picture credit Have you seen the report on European Health 2015 that was just published by the WHO? First the good news: it seems there has been some progress and some inequalities in health...
Today is December 1st, a day that has been known as World AIDS Day since 1988! This year’s ‘Think Positive: Rethink HIV’campaign is challenging people to rethink outdated stereotypes, challenge myths and be positive about...
Boat planks in a church in Noto/ Sicily, April 2015 (photo by Oliver Razum) Ten days ago, while much of the news -at least in Europe- were occupied by the birth of a princess,...
picture credit Are you physically active? Before rushing to say “yes”, I’ll give you the official definition of what that means, according to the WHO: assuming that you are an adult, at least...
picture credit The effects of the economic crisis on mental health have been a recurring matter of speculation and research in the past years. The WHO already published a report on the subject...
*picture credit As part our special issue “Communication Technology, Media Use and the Health of our Kids“, Fong-Ching Chang and colleagues just published a study on online gaming and online risk taking and...
In developed countries, the vast majority of preventable causes of premature morbidity and mortality in the developed countries are accounted for by behaviour-related health risk factors, such as smoking and physical inactivity. Unemployment, on...
According to literature, immigrants tend to have poorer health than native-born people. Between 1950 and 1990 an estimated 12 million people left Eastern European countries and a lot of them resided in Western Europe....
The World Health Organisation estimates that 2.8% of deaths worldwide are attributable to low fruit and vegetable consumption. Young adults, in particular, tend to consume less than the recommended amount of fruit and vegetables....
Mental disorders, especially depression, are responsible for high absenteeism from work and economic loss. In addition, the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and depression is well known and there is a social gradient...
At the International Journal of Public Health we are regularly publish papers on physical activity (some recent examples here, here and here). Our latest paper on that front looks into the effect of...
Young people are usually perceived as healthy and resilient. They do, however, face health-related issues, such as drug and alcohol (ab)use, mental health problems, sexually transmitted infections, pregnancies etc. Due to factors such as...
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. According to the World Health Organisation, more than 80% of those deaths occur in low and middle income countries. In such...
There are people who go to the doctor as soon as they sneeze. And there are others who refuse to make an appointment even when they are obviously really unwell. But even for...
According to the World Health Organisation, 1 billion people are affected by hypertension, which makes it a global health issue. There are not a lot of studies comparing hypertension prevalence rates between the...
According to the World Health Organisation, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) kill millions of people every year, and nearly 80% of NCD deaths occur in low and middle income countries (this amounts to 29 million...
According to the World Health Organisation, arsenic exposure in drinking water is a hazard to human health. The association of arsenic exposure and lung cancer risk has been studied quite extensively; the association...
Amsterdam. Even if you have never been there, you surely have seen images of bicycles flooding the city. In fact, there are more bicycles than humans in this town (!) and this is...
Last month, thousands of people walked in Istanbul, showing their support to the obesity prevention program. Obesity is a major health concern in Turkey, leading- amongst others- to cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and diabetes...
