Happy 50th birthday smoking awareness!
This Saturday use a lighter. Not to light a cigarette, of course, but only the virtual candles of the birthday cake of smoking awareness. For on January 11th 1964, the Surgeon General of the...
Category: general public health
Physical inactivty. Not just a first world problem.
Happy New Year everyone! We are back for good and this is officially our first post of 2014! Shortly before we left, we had talked about new year’s resolutions . I cannot prove it,...
Metabolic syndrome and socioeconomic status in France
A newly published study at the International Journal of Public Health sought to investigate the prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome in France and its association with socioeconomic position. Data was taken from the French National...
Innovations in health care and mortality trends from 5 cancers in 7 European countries
Although the contribution of health care to survival from cancer has been studied extensively, much less is known about its contribution to population health. In a recently published study at the International Journal of...
Blogroll part 3! Recommended Public Health Blogs!
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...
Public Health Fun- Update!
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...
Our summer article collection!
As the IJPH Blog will soon take a holiday, we’d thought we leave you with a small collection of articles related to summer and heat! – A review on Public health impact of global...
Track your food! Do you eat as healthy as you think (or wish)?
We live in a strange world, where obesity figures seem to be high all over the developed world and -at the same time- information and options for healthy eating are becoming more and...
Announcement: Swiss Public Health Conference 2012!
We are happy to announce this year’s Swiss Public Health Conference, which is organized by Public Health Schweiz and the Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine of the Universtity of Lausanne. The Conference...
December 1st: A world day worth remembering
Yesterday was the World AIDS Day , a day for raising awareness about HIV/AIDS that has been observed since 1988 on December 1st each year. This year, world AIDS day was about getting to...
Launch of the UCL Institute of Health Equity
The Internatonal Journal of Public Health is very much focused on social inequalities in health! We recently published a special issue on the subject, as well as a Supplement on social determinants of child...
Bringing Public Health research and practice closer: Public Health Training Center to be established at Yale!
It seems that the International Journal of Public Health is not alone in its endavour to bridge the gap between Public Health Reseach and Practice! Yale has just announced that establishment of a Public...
Socioeconomic inequalities in health betweeen Roma and non-Roma in Serbia: new article in the IJPH!
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...
Symposium on Regional Differences in Health and Health Care” this autumn in Bern!
A Symposium on “Regional Differences in Health and Health Care. What There is to Learn”, will be held on 16 November 2011 in the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern (in German and French). All...
Swiss Public Health Conference: Chronic Disease- A global challenge.
This year’s Swiss Public Health Conference will be held in Kollegienhaus, Basel from 25th to 26th of August. Please visit the conference web page here ! You can alredy download a copy of the...
Public Health Achievements vs Public Health Failures: make your own lists!
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...
Advocating for health promotion approaches to non-cummunicable disease prevention
KEY MESSAGES FROM THE INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR HEALTH PROMOTION AND EDUCATION In the lead up to the United Nations High Level Meeting on NCDs, New York, September 2011 “ NCDs present a complex picture...
Social Media in Public Health: can they make a difference?
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...
Public Health Methodology. We take it seriously!
– How many epidemiologists does it take to change a light bulb? – Six. One to change it and five to critique the methods. This made me laugh out loud. Methodology in Public Health...
Public Health Fun! The use of games in Public Health Education
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...
