International Journal of Public Health Blog
Although the contribution of health care to survival from cancer has been studied extensively, much less is known about its contribution to population health. In a recently published study at the International Journal of...
We are happy to announce a course on Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis offered by the Swiss School of Public Health + (SSPH+) . This 3 day course aims to enable PhD students to conduct...
Antimicrobial resistance is a major public health problem and has severe implications. There is a correlation between antibiotic misuse, self-medication with antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance. This is why the WHO describes self-medication with antibiotics...
A while ago, we announced a call for systematic reviews on topics relevant issues addressed at the Conference Environment and Health 2013 ; the winner of the call would win a travel award to...
Time flies. I just realised that once more, as I was looking for an older post which I thought was 2-3 months old, only to find out that I wrote it almost a year...
Do you have to deal with clustered data and would like to know how to define the appropriate analysis methods for your dataset? Do you want to learn how to perform and evaluate such...
Climate change might impact health through temperature changes, extreme weather events, air pollution, as well as through exacerbations of food shortages and vector- food- and water-borne diseases. Moreover, climate change might also impact health...
Evidence supports the beneficial health impact of an increase in primary care physicians for underserved populations. However, given the shortage of primary care physicians in many countries, the authors of this recently published paper...
The next course announced from the Swiss School of Public Health+ is practical introduction to the free, open-source statistical software R! If you are one of those people who appreciate the flexibility of R ...
A newly published study in the International Journal of Public Health sought to describe health literacy and its association with substance use among young men in Switzerland. Data were taken from the Cohort Study...
Research has shown that migrant status coincides with disparities in the use of hospital services. Migrants tend to use Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments rather than hospital services and they resort to A&E...
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...
This freshly published study from the International Journal of Public Health aimed to assess the presence and magnitude of inequalities in mental health and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in children. The study used...
The idea for this post came -as often- from a news item this morning: a recently published study found that bullying by siblings might have detrimental effects on children’s mental health – similar to...
We are happy to announce a new course from the Swiss School of Public Health+ entitled “Qualitative Research in Health: Where Quantitative Methods Can Not Reach”. This is an introductory course, aiming to give...
Youth smoking has been traditionally studied in relation to individual, family and peer influences. In the past few years, however, the physical environment of the neighbourhood has also been considered to be an...
A while ago, we had published a post presenting you with vintage public health posters which proved to be quite popular! It took me a while to have the idea to look for vintage...
Here at the International Journal of Public Health we are interested in following the latest developments in technology as related to Public Health (and we have a facebook and twitter account to prove it!)....
Did the title of this post leave you wondering? Was your initial reaction “how can GIS be connected to public health?”. Think again! The physical and social environment that surround us play an important...
A while ago, we had posted about a study we published, regarding an online registry fro knowledge translation methods and tools (available for FREE download on pdf and html). We have just published a...
