International Journal of Public Health Blog
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...
Parents often complain that their children spend too much time in front of their computer and are worried about what effect this might have to their children’s’ health. After recent reports in the...
In many population surveys, health status is represented either by self-reported specific measures or by single questions general health indicators, like the Self-Rated Health (SRH) and the Global Activity Limitation Indicator (GALI). Both...
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...
Last week, a report on child labor in US tobacco fields from Human Rights Watch made it to a lot of news headlines. We might not used in reading about child labor...
“Patient empowerment” is a term we often hear, but what does it mean? According to the European Network on Patient Empowerment (ENOPE), an empowered patient Understands their health condition and its effect on...
HPV has been in the news last week, as FDA approved the first HPV DNA test for primary cervical cancer screening for women over 25 years of age. For young girls, HPV vaccination...
It has not been long since our last Public Health Fun post and it’s already time for another (small) update! I just came across another simulation “game” and I had to share it with...
We are happy to present you the second IJPH issue of this year! Twenty-two papers covering a variety of subjects, including smoking, physical activity, socioeconomic inequalities, amongst others! In this issue you will also...
“Was it ever gone”? I hear you ask. Hopefully not from our lives; but it was gone from the blog so I thought it was about time for an update! (if you have missed...
After our papers showing that smoking ban in workplaces reduces cardiovascular risk for workers and that smoking ban had no impact on gastronomy revenues, we are back with more good news regarding...
Could a nutrition and lifestyle intervention have an effect on immunological parameters in treatment-naive HIV patients? This is what a recently published study in the International Journal of Public Health sought to investigate....
Are you writing or about to start writing your next journal article? Do you consider writing for journals one of the most challenging part of your studies/ job in Public Health? Then this freshly...
We have recently talked about a new EU smoking law and smoking policies in different countries, amongst which Switzerland. You may have heard about Switzerland in the news the last couple of days...
Like every year, our Editors would like to express our appreciation and gratitude to the Reviewers that worked with us in 2013 to ensure the diversity, scientific interest...
Good news in the anti-smoking front! As reported last week, a draft legislation to make tobacco products less attractive to young people in EU has just been agreed between the Council of...
Two different stories on children and technology use have caught my eye recently: One one hand computer coding seems to soon be included in the school curriculum in England; on the other concerns have...
Low response rates present a common problem in epidemiological surveys. People with foreign background might show lower response rates, due to factors such as language problems. Different strategies to increase response rates have...
