International Journal of Public Health Blog
TV viewing is associated with increased BMI and childhood obesity. Time spent in front of TV or computer screens is also associated with dietary habits such as higher sugar intake or fast food consumption....
Health communication strategies are used more and more in prevention interventions for HIV/AIDS. In a recently published systematic review , Zhiwen Xiao , Seth M Noar and Lily Zeng investigate whether communication strategies have...
Heatwaves can have a grave impact on human health and life; the 2003 heatwave in Europe, for instance, resulted in more than 70,000 excess deaths. The need to reduce the harm caused by heatwaves...
We are happy to present you with the table of contents of our latest issue! In this issue, eighteen Original Articles, one Review and two Hints and Kinks articles are available for our readers....
As we have discussed in a previous post, the health of Roma population is reported to be worse compared to the health of non-Roma population. We have just published another study on Roma health...
Euthanasia is often a matter of debate in Europe, with some countries like Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg decriminalizing it. The degree of public acceptance has been shown to vary across Europe in a survey...
The health of people of Roma ethnicity, has been shown to be poorer compared to people of non-Roma ethnicity in various studies. Health inequalities are bigger in Central and Eastern Europe and they might...
Internal migration between deprived and non-deprived areas may influence the health status of the residents of these areas. Because the size and composition of migration flows to and from deprived areas vary with age,...
There is a high prevalence of childhood overweight globally, which makes the need for prevention and management intervention more relevant than ever. In a recently published study , results from the “Eat well, be...
We just published a very interesting study by Adrianna Murphy, Nataliia Levchuk, Andrew Stickley, Bayard Roberts and Martin McKee from the European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition from the London School of Hygiene...
We got an award! We were happily informed that Masters in Public Health Degrees has named our blog one of the top 30 Public Health Blogs for 2012! They write: At the forefront...
A while ago we reproduced a lightbulb joke, relevant to public health research. We now come back with another one! (source) – How many public health people does it take to change a...
As part of our special section on Knowledge Synthesis, Translation and Exchange, we recently published a study entitled “Online registry of knowledge translation methods and tools to support evidence-informed public health”. The study is...
We are happy to announce a new course from the Swiss School of Public Health + (SSPH+) entitled “Conducting Qualitative Research in Health: Writing and Getting Published”. This course provides an introduction to writing...
In this freshly published narrative systematic review, the authors (Josee Lapalme, Sherri Bisset and Louise Potvin) are asking: how do neighbourhood interventions become effective in promoting positive youth development? They addressed this question by...
After our first and second Blogrolls, we thought it’s about time we had a third one, albeit short! So here it goes: – As most of you are probably already aware of, PLOS has...
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...
We continue our series of Meet the Blogger articles, by a contribution from Katherine Welch, in collaboration with the Cancer inCYTES Blog. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Although largely framed as a legal issue, a social issue, and...
In this newly published study in the International Journal of Public Health, the authors (Alessio Vieno, Michela Lenzi, Massimo Santinello, Franco Cavallo) explore the time trend changes and gender convergence in adolescent drunkenness in...
Self-rated health is a widely used and recognized measure of health status. There is some discussion, however, about a possible conceptual differentiation between positive and negative self-rated health: do their determinants refer to similar...
