Words matter! Social versus spatial distancing
“Social distancing” is a term that most of us have not used or given it a second thought until recently. Nowadays, it seems every second phrase we use or hear is that. Social distancing...
“Social distancing” is a term that most of us have not used or given it a second thought until recently. Nowadays, it seems every second phrase we use or hear is that. Social distancing...
picture credit: Mark Reldy under Creative Commons Licence We are happy to post the press release for our recently published Supplement entitled “The state of health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 1990–2015”.” Mental...
For many people, music festivals are an integral part of summer: friends, music, fun. What could go wrong apart from a bit of mud (which some people claim is part of the charm...
Being greek, I remember very well the time the summer Olympic games “returned” to Athens in 2004, even if I was alredy living away from Greece at the time. I remember a general joyous atmosphere and...
Our new -and very exciting- issue was just published. I let the infographic make the talking! Enjoy and let us know what you think! For the table of contents please click here!
picture credit We are happy to introduce the newest addition to our guest blog posts series by Chris Patterson & Heide Weishaar. Read on, share and comment! * Following the Royal Assent of...
*picture credit With the refugee crisis becoming more and more dramatic and coming from a country that currently receives 7,000 refugees per day I can’t help but thinking what more can we do and...
*picture credit As part our special issue “Communication Technology, Media Use and the Health of our Kids“, Fong-Ching Chang and colleagues just published a study on online gaming and online risk taking and...
picture credit As part of our special issue “Communication Technology, Media Use and the Health of our Kids”, we published a new study looking at the associations between screen-based behaviour and health complaints...
To e-smoke or not to e-smoke: is that a question? With this title our Editor in Chief, Nino Künzli, introduces and places in context two invited commentaries on e-cigarettes. Both these commentaries...
News in the smoking ban front seem to have been steadily good: As of today, 179 countries have signed the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which compels the signatories to enact...
Whenever I hear about salt reduction policies, I cannot help thinking about this paper looking into the salt content in staff canteens of salt policy makers, that we talked about (together with other...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
A while ago, we informed you about an IJPH article on Prostate Specific Antigen Testing (PSA).In this article, the authors reported reduction in prostate cancer mortality in the population of Tyrol, where more than...