International Journal of Public Health Blog
We are happy to announce a new course on statistics offered by the Swiss School of Public Health+ (SSPH+). The course will be held on 6th and 7th of March 2013 at the Institute...
Today is World Diabetes Day! This year, the focus remains on Diabetes Education and Prevention and we thought it’d be a good idea to provide you with a list of recently published diabetes-related IJPH...
We are happy to announce the upcoming course from the Swiss School of Public Health+ (SSPH+) on Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses. This 2-day course will cover theoretical and practical aspects of conducting systematic reviews,...
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,...
We are happy to announce the next course organised by the Swiss School of Public Health + (SSPH+), entitled “Statistical Methods in Epidemiology”. This will be a two-day course, held on January 14-15 2013...
Today we are introducing a new section in the blog called “Meet the Blogger”. In this section, invited Public Health bloggers will be contributing posts about their own research and/ or their experience on...
We are happy to announce the publication of the latest issue of the International Journal of Public Health! In this issue, we publish 8 Original Articles and one Brief Report reporting research results...
We are happy to announce a new course from the Swiss School of Public Health , entitiled “Conducting Qualitative Research in Health: An Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis”. Participants will learn how to develop...
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 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...
In every issue, the Editors in Chief of the International Journal of Public Health, choose an article of outstanding scientific quality and public health relevance and offer it to the readers free of charge!...
Our August issue is out and you can find the table of contents here! In this issue, you will find numerous papers on migrant health (ranging from health in migrant children in Switzerland to...
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...
We are happy to announce the online publication of a study on the change of the socioeconomic gradient in health-related behaviour in adolescents in Slovakia. This article is written by Lukas Pitel, Andrea Madarasova...
The Swiss School of Public Health+ is offering another very useful course for people interested in health care evaluation: Dr Thomas Gsponer and Professor Marcel Zwahlen will be the facilitators of the course, entitled...
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...
We are happy to announce two new courses offered by the Swiss School of Public Health+. “Analysis of data with measurements below the detection limit“: This course aims to provide participants with an...
The HPV vaccination , i.e. vaccination against Human Papilloma virus which causes most cases of cervical cancer, has recently gained fresh news coverage due to various reasons. First off, researchers identified cervical cells...
Have you ever heard of the term “male-female health survival paradox?” It refers to the fact that women live longer than men but -at the same time- have more disabilities and report worse health....
