International Journal of Public Health Blog
We are happy to announce the recent publication of a paper stemming from the HBSC study, examining the role of health behaviour and gender in educational inequalities in adolescent life satisfaction. But first...
If you are interested in social inequalities in Roma people as much as we do (recent examples here, here and here), you might be interested in having two newly published reports that were produced...
In our previous blog post we discussed current rates of smoking across the world. According to this recent study Switzerland, where our Journal is based, is amongst the countries with a high prevalence...
This Saturday use a lighter. Not to light a cigarette, of course, but only the virtual candles of the birthday cake of smoking awareness. For on January 11th 1964, the Surgeon General of the...
Happy New Year everyone! We are back for good and this is officially our first post of 2014! Shortly before we left, we had talked about new year’s resolutions . I cannot prove it,...
Ho, ho, ho! This is our last post for 2013 and we are in a festive mood. In case you have not noticed, here is a selfie for you: Apart from our best...
A while ago, we asked on Twitter whether people used Social Media for Public Health teaching. We received some interesting answers (which led to this post), amongst which was...
You hear it in the media. You hear it from your doctor. Hey, you have even heard if in this blog. Physical activity is good for you. Physical activity is good for everyone. But...
I will start this post by quoting the first paragraph of a recent NY Times Commentary by David Bornstein as I think there can be no better introduction to this subject as this (not...
I must confess, I was not really sure what “sensory stimulation” is until today. Google tells me (at least in the first pages of the search) that sensory stimulation can be part of therapy...
At least that’s what Guidelines say you should do! And -most importantly- what children should do as well! According to UK Guidelines young children should have at least 60 minutes per day...
Do you have an interest in applied data analysis? Do you want to learn how to analyze complex exposure-response patterns and learn all about the modern ways of thinking about confounding? Then the Swiss...
Imagine an ordinary day. You wake up, eat your bacon cereal and off you go to work. Only you step into what seems to be an image from the apocalypse: there is thick smog...
I love social media. I love to use it both personally and professionally (and I am keeping the two separate). I have also been known to bug my work colleagues and professors to start...
The Swiss School of Public Health+ has just announced a new course entitled “Qualitative research in health: an introduction to qualitative research methods“. As the title suggests, this course aims to enable participants to...
We recently published a study * at the International Journal of Public Health, that looks into the prevalence of the “sandwich generation” in Ireland and its impact on self-reported health. I must confess: until...
Mortality patterns in Europe after 1990 have been extensively analyzed. Such patterns, however, have not been adequately studied for the periods before that. In a recently published study at the International Journal of Public...
The Swiss School of Public Health+ has just announced a new course for the upcoming Spring: this will be a 3 day course on statistical modeling with emphasis on logistic regression. The course is...
In a recently published study at the International Journal of Public Health, the authors aimed to investigate health-promoting behaviours and their determinants, including social support and sociodemographic characteristics in Iranian women. In addition, womens’...
A newly published study at the International Journal of Public Health sought to investigate the prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome in France and its association with socioeconomic position. Data was taken from the French National...
