International Journal of Public Health Blog
We are happy to announce a new course organized by the Swiss School of Public Health+, entitled “Genes- Are they key to Public Health?”. The course provides an introduction into studying the genetic architecture...
The International Journal of Public Health has just published a special issue on life course influences on health and health inequalities. Life course research explores the long-term effects of biological, physical and social exposures...
Writing and submitting your work for publication is a task that a lot of students and researchers find overwhelming. If you are one of those, we have good news for you! The Swiss School...
For those interested in climate change, we are happy to offer you a paper to download for FREE! This paper was recently published in the International Journal of Public Health and is entitled...
We are happy to share the following announcement with you: The International Journal of Public Health (IJPH) (Impact Factor 2011: 2.539) invites submissions of systematic REVIEWS on internationally relevant public health topics related to...
We recently published a very interesting paper looking at health selection in the context of transitions across employment statuses, with focus on gender differences. The paper, written by Myung Ki and colleagues, uses data...
After two very interesting interviews with Kishan Karripannon and Tamara Bugembe, we continue our series of Meet the Blogger* with a guest blog post of blogger Marie Ennis-O’Connor. Marie Ennis-O’Connor is a board member of...
After successfully initiating the Meet the Blogger* section of our Blog with an interview with Kishan Karripannon, it is now time to meet another public health blogger, Dr. Tamara Bugembe and learn from her...
We are happy to announce the publication of the latest issue of the International Journal of Public Health! In this issue, we publish 10 Original Articles and one Brief Report reporting research results on...
On Saturday, December 1st was World AIDS Day, so we thought it would be a good idea to share some HIV related articles that we have published, coming from Europe, South America, India –...
We are happy to announce a new course on statistics offered by the Swiss School of Public Health+ (SSPH+). The course will be held on 6th and 7th of March 2013 at the Institute...
Today is World Diabetes Day! This year, the focus remains on Diabetes Education and Prevention and we thought it’d be a good idea to provide you with a list of recently published diabetes-related IJPH...
We are happy to announce the upcoming course from the Swiss School of Public Health+ (SSPH+) on Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses. This 2-day course will cover theoretical and practical aspects of conducting systematic reviews,...
AsI was reading the latest news about Toronto discussing further expanding smoking bans in public places, I thought it would be a good idea to offer you a pack of free studies on smoking,...
We are happy to announce the next course organised by the Swiss School of Public Health + (SSPH+), entitled “Statistical Methods in Epidemiology”. This will be a two-day course, held on January 14-15 2013...
Today we are introducing a new section in the blog called “Meet the Blogger”. In this section, invited Public Health bloggers will be contributing posts about their own research and/ or their experience on...
We are happy to announce the publication of the latest issue of the International Journal of Public Health! In this issue, we publish 8 Original Articles and one Brief Report reporting research results...
We are happy to announce a new course from the Swiss School of Public Health , entitiled “Conducting Qualitative Research in Health: An Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis”. Participants will learn how to develop...
Switzerland’s federal anti-smoking law is weak, allowing smoking in certain restaurants or bars. Nevertheless, fifteen Swiss cantons (including Ticino) have adopted comprehensive smoking bans on a cantonal level. When such bans were introduced in...
The results of a new study show that the smoking ban in public places, which was implemented in Switzerland in May 2010, improves the health of the service personnel. The study, known as COSIBAR...
