Ideal cardiovascular health: who has it?
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. According to the World Health Organisation, more than 80% of those deaths occur in low and middle income countries. In such...
Category: international journal of public health
Malnutrition in children under 5 in Serbia: great differences between Roma and non Roma
According to the World Health Organisation “children represent the future and ensuring their healthy growth and development ought to be a prime concern of all societies”. However, regional, ethnic and social factors might present...
Should I go to the doctor? Functional health literacy across migrant populations
There are people who go to the doctor as soon as they sneeze. And there are others who refuse to make an appointment even when they are obviously really unwell. But even for...
Can web queries predict incident diagnosis rates of STDs?
The number of newly diagnosed HIV cases in Russia has increased explosively since the first recorded case in 1987. Syphilis notification rates, on the other hand, has declined significantly. Nevertheless, it remains among...
Salt reduction policies in Syria before the crisis. What about after?
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...
Big differences between diagnosed and undiagnosed hypertension in USA and Ireland
According to the World Health Organisation, 1 billion people are affected by hypertension, which makes it a global health issue. There are not a lot of studies comparing hypertension prevalence rates between the...
Differences in self-rated congitive disability between first and second generation immigrant children
Although there is some international ambiguity, studies in the US show more frequently a self-reported health advantage among immigrants. In study we just published, Emma KT Benn uses a method that aims to...
Priority setting for cardiovascular disease control and prevention
According to the World Health Organisation, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) kill millions of people every year, and nearly 80% of NCD deaths occur in low and middle income countries (this amounts to 29 million...
Does chronic low level arsenic exposure reduce lung function?
According to the World Health Organisation, arsenic exposure in drinking water is a hazard to human health. The association of arsenic exposure and lung cancer risk has been studied quite extensively; the association...
Cycling to school among youth: distance matters more than beauty
Amsterdam. Even if you have never been there, you surely have seen images of bicycles flooding the city. In fact, there are more bicycles than humans in this town (!) and this is...
More computer=less sleep=worse health? A study of 15 year olds in 3 countries
Parents often complain that their children spend too much time in front of their computer and are worried about what effect this might have to their children’s’ health. After recent reports in the...
To combine or not to combine? Specific vs general self-reported health indicators
In many population surveys, health status is represented either by self-reported specific measures or by single questions general health indicators, like the Self-Rated Health (SRH) and the Global Activity Limitation Indicator (GALI). Both...
Health policy analysis in Turkey: cardiovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus
Last month, thousands of people walked in Istanbul, showing their support to the obesity prevention program. Obesity is a major health concern in Turkey, leading- amongst others- to cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and diabetes...
Child labour and child health- A study from Egypt
Last week, a report on child labor in US tobacco fields from Human Rights Watch made it to a lot of news headlines. We might not used in reading about child labor...
Risk factor awareness and quality of life in coronary patients
“Patient empowerment” is a term we often hear, but what does it mean? According to the European Network on Patient Empowerment (ENOPE), an empowered patient Understands their health condition and its effect on...
Have GPs changed their attitudes towards HPV vaccination?
HPV has been in the news last week, as FDA approved the first HPV DNA test for primary cervical cancer screening for women over 25 years of age. For young girls, HPV vaccination...
International Journal of Public Health: New issue out now!
We are happy to present you the second IJPH issue of this year! Twenty-two papers covering a variety of subjects, including smoking, physical activity, socioeconomic inequalities, amongst others! In this issue you will also...
More good news on the smoking ban front!
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...
Modifying nutrition and lifestyle on HIV-infected patients slows down the rate of CD4 decline: a study from Cameroon
Could a nutrition and lifestyle intervention have an effect on immunological parameters in treatment-naive HIV patients? This is what a recently published study in the International Journal of Public Health sought to investigate....
Smoking ban in workplaces reduces cardiovascular risk for workers
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...
