International Journal of Public Health Blog
The International Journal of Public Health is very much interested in work relating to socioeconomic inequalities in health. In the past, we have published a themed issue on that subject, while relevant papers appear...
This week, the US Department of Health and Human Services released a series of nine new text warnings accompanies with graphic images that are planned to be used on cigarette packs from September 2012. ...
I have previously tried to convince you that Public Health can be fun! Today I would like to add that some Public Health researchers have been really creative and I think their efforts deserve...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently published the 10 Public Health Achievements of First Decade of 21st Century. Tobacco control, occupational safety, cancer prevention are included in the list and...
In the past we have talked about online games in public health, social media in public health and we do have a blog which I guess is the biggest proof that we are very...
We all know it. Yet, we have all fallen into the trap at some point. Information of all kinds targets our brains daily and what stays in the end is inevitably the headlines: “coffee...
Do you have a blog, tweet regularly or have a facebook account? Chances are that you answered positive to (at least) one of these. How do I know? Well, seeing that least one out...
The economic crisis of the last years, often referred to as “great recession” has raised many discussions on how it could affect our health. The World Health Organization issued a statement on the matter...
Who said that studying Public Health is only about spending hours studying textbooks? It seems there are more fun ways to learn, or at least that’s the idea! I was not aware of the...
While browsing through my favourite public health blogs, I came across an article on Patient Navigation , by Pamela Fayerman published in the Vancouver Sun. I had never heard of this term before, so...
In this very interesting article published recently at NY Times, A.G Sulzberger presents a new employment trend, as observed in some settings in the United States: smokers now face the risk of not being...
Closing our first series of students’ articles, Stephanie Alexander offers an interesting introduction to a somewhat different Public Health topic: children’s play. We would very much like to have your views on this thought-provoking...
In this week’s Students’ Den, Martine Shareck gives us an introduction to the concept of activity space and its potential use in health research. Enjoy reading and join the discussion! Thank you Martine! ————————————————————————————————————————————————–...
I am happy to introduce Students’ Den, a new section in our blog, that aims to give Public Health students the opportunity to elaborate on a subject of their choice. We look forward to...
With the somewhat provocative (and relatively depressing) title “Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic” , the Economist addresses an issue that will probably touch a few cords- albeit for different reasons. In a nutshell, Academia...
