International Journal of Public Health Blog
Picture credit Each year, the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) organizes a national ‘Week of Science and Technology’ – an event devoted to popularization of domestic scientific research. As part of this years’ edition...
*This is a guest blogpost regarding our recently published study “Contribution of chronic conditions to gender disparities in disability in the older population in Brazil, 2013″. This paper is our Editors’ Choice...
We are happy to announce that our latest Supplement on health and social determinants of heath in Vietnam was just launched! As the Supplement was published on the occasion of the 4th International One...
Like every year, December 1st is World AIDS Day. This year the focus is on putting the HIV stigma in the past and challenge wrong beliefs and misconceptions that are still holding strong since...
We are very happy to present our new special issue on Violence and Health in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA), edited by James Gilligan, Sylvia Kaaya and Bandy X...
We are happy to host this guest blog post introducing two recently published Hints & Kinks* papers, written by the authors of the most cited IJPH article ‘The reliability of a two-item scale: Pearson, Cronbach,...
Here is our quick guide on preparing your manuscript for submission to IJPH! For detailed instructions to authors please visit our website!
A couple of weeks ago, we announced the winner of our “Development and Public Health: Challenges for Latin America” call for papers. Now it is time to get to know the winner better! Ana...
Here is an infographic for one of our recently published papers! For the full study please click here
A while ago we opened a call for papers called “Development and Public Health: Challenges for Latin America” with the opportunity of the 2nd Latin America Meeting of Public Health (which will be held at...
Alcohol is bad for you, even more so if you are a young adolescent. And so are energy drinks. How bad is their combination then? Read our latest study to find out! You can also...
For many people, music festivals are an integral part of summer: friends, music, fun. What could go wrong apart from a bit of mud (which some people claim is part of the charm...
This is a guest blog post by Ravinder Mamtani, MD. Dr. Mamtani is Professor of Integrative Medicine, Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research and Associate Dean for Global and Public Health at Weill Cornell...
*This is a guest blog post by Dr. Lee Liu. Dr Liu is Professor of Geography at University of Central Missouri. His current interests include environmental health, public health, and sustainable living. More information...
While looking back at the posts from previous July(s) to update our “on this month” series, I came across this post from 2012 where I have collected papers related to summer for those of...
Being greek, I remember very well the time the summer Olympic games “returned” to Athens in 2004, even if I was alredy living away from Greece at the time. I remember a general joyous atmosphere and...
We are back with a new inforgraphic! How does pre-pregancy obesity/overweight affect delivery outcomes? And is there a difference between immigrant and non-immigrant women? Read the study by clicking here! https://magic.piktochart.com/output/14376020-pre-pregancy-obesity
We are happy to introduce you to our new issue! Browse the table of contents here and let us know what you think!
We are cetainly not the first ones to have asked this question! But we think we might be the first ones who tried to answer it using a randomised study design! We like Social Media...
We are back with a freshly published, open access paper on the role of social ties in socio-economic differences in the school context. Full text available open access here! Have fun reading! https://magic.piktochart.com/output/13873312-smoking-and-friendship
