International Journal of Public Health Blog
Watching tv, reading newspapers, surfing the net…as all these activities are done seated, they do not exactly help much with exercise. In addition, they have also been associated to obesity. And this is where...
We are happy to announce a new course from the Swiss School of Public Health +, entitled “How to pass your research protocol through an ethics review committee”. The course will focus on what...
Have you ever heard of the term “intersectoral action for heatlh” ? It refers to the collaboration between two or more sectors of the public life (like education and health care), in order to...
A while ago (time does fly!) we have talked about Public Health methodology at the International Journal of Public Health and its special section called Hints and Kinks which includes short methodological reports (1000...
The Swiss School of Public Health+ announced a media training workshop on communication skills, to be taught on October 29th and 30th in Bern, Switzerland. The aim of the workshop is to help students...
Yes, it is back. It seemed that our last post presenting creative public health studies is still very popular, so I thought I would make a sequel! After last’s years study on fondue, the...
The Swiss School of Public Health + has announced a new course called “Conducting Qualitative Research in Health: An Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods”. The course is an excellent introduction to qualitative research methods...
Another year has gone by and it would be a great omission not to thank the people who reviewed the submissions for the International Journal of Public Health during 2011! Two hundred and eighty...
New year brought some changes in the Intnerational Journal of Public Health: One of our Editors in Chief since 2001, Thomas Abel, is stepping down from his role to focus more on his own...
Linked to the October 2011 special issue on “Migrants and ethnic minorities in Europe: new challenges for public health research and practice”, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is pleased to announce the online...
One of the major stresses of PhD students and researchers in general, is getting their work published in peer reviewed journals. I am sure there are more than enough of us that at some...
After thinking and blogging about the use of social media in Public Health, it was bound to happen…The International Journal of Public Health has now a twitter account! Make sure you follow us for...
The latest issue of the Inernational Journal of Public Health was a special issue! Entitled Housing for Health Promotion , it covers a wide range of subjects related to housing and health! From the...
Hello everyone! We are back and we would like to wish to each and every one of you a very happy and creative new year! We start off 2012 with an interesting announcement! The...
Ho, ho, ho! Are you in the holiday mood yet? Well, we are! So -just before we go away for a few days- we decided to show our appreciation to our readers by providing...
The Swiss School of Public Health + (SSPH+) has announced new courses! Click on the links below for more details! 02.02.2012-03.02.2012 Statistical Methods for Epidemiology Register Online Prof. Timothy Lash, Aarhus University Hospital &...
Here at the International Journal of Public Health, we are very interested in activities organised by and/ or for students. We are, therefore, happy to announce the 4th International Student Medical Congress, which will...
Yesterday was the World AIDS Day , a day for raising awareness about HIV/AIDS that has been observed since 1988 on December 1st each year. This year, world AIDS day was about getting to...
A while ago, we informed you about an IJPH article on Prostate Specific Antigen Testing (PSA).In this article, the authors reported reduction in prostate cancer mortality in the population of Tyrol, where more than...
The Internatonal Journal of Public Health is very much focused on social inequalities in health! We recently published a special issue on the subject, as well as a Supplement on social determinants of child...
