International Journal of Public Health Blog
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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....
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...
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 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...
A while ago, we published a post about the use of games in Public Health education. As google analytics tell me, there are quite a lot of people who have been looking for “public...
A few weeks ago, we had discussed whether about mobile applications used in public health. Today, I would like to share with you yet another very interesting use of mobile applications, which I found...
We have already talked about social media in Public Health. Now it is time to see the newest ways to access Public Health related information using platforms other than our computers. The rise of...
Watching tv, reading newspapers, surfing the net…as all these activities are done seated, they do not exactly help much with exercise. In addition, they have also been associated to obesity. And this is where...
Yes, it is back. It seemed that our last post presenting creative public health studies is still very popular, so I thought I would make a sequel! After last’s years study on fondue, the...
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...
We have discussed before about the use of social media in Public Health, what seems to be the way forward in Public Health campaings. But what about the way backward (in time, that is;...
We have previously talked about how seing something published doesn’t make it true. In that same post, I had recommended a list of online sources that deal with issues of studies of dubious methodology...
Let’s say someone asked you to collect everything you plan to eat and drink today and take a picture. How would that look like? And what difference would your age, ethnicity, occupation, education, social...
