International Journal of Public Health Blog
picture credit In today’s guest blog post, Ishu Kataria* talks about growth monitoring in India The ABC of Growth Monitoring and Promotion: My experiences in the field Growth refers to regular increase in the...
Long before facebook introduced the “On this day” app (an app that shows you what you did on facebook on the exact date one, two or x years ago), I had developed the habit...
I noticed that we have very recently published our 5,001 paper and I thought this was a good opportunity to celebrate, in form of making our first infographic! Have a look and get to...
Heart attack is the leading cause of death in the US and there is a significant relationship between income and risk for cardiovascular disease. A lot of cross-sectional studies have linked income inequality with...
Boat planks in a church in Noto/ Sicily, April 2015 (photo by Oliver Razum) Ten days ago, while much of the news -at least in Europe- were occupied by the birth of a princess,...
picture credit Are you physically active? Before rushing to say “yes”, I’ll give you the official definition of what that means, according to the WHO: assuming that you are an adult, at least...
A new member issue was added in the IJPH family! Our fifth issue for this year was just published and it is full of interesting papers, if we may say so ourselves! This issue...
We are very happy to reintroduce our “Meet the Blogger” section with the contribution of Dr. James Woodall. James is a Reader in Health Promotion and currently co-directs the Centre for Health Promotion Research...
Spring has come in Switzerland. The sun might have distracted me a bit and I forgot to introduce you to our latest issue. Let me make up for it: Blog readers, this is IJPH’s...
picture credit UPDATE 1st December 2015 With the occasion of the ongoing Paris Climate Change Conference, we thought it’d be a good idea to update our post on Climate Change from earlier this year. Since...
I decided to make another post on Public Health Fun because, well, it is fun! Without further ado, here are my latest discoveries: – I came across this website, from the School of Community...
picture credit Are you about to finish your Masters in Public Health (MPH)? Are you hoping to publish your thesis in a peer-reviewed journal? Ever wondered what are your chances of having it...
picture credit The effects of the economic crisis on mental health have been a recurring matter of speculation and research in the past years. The WHO already published a report on the subject...
The latest addition to our series entitled “Knowledge synthesis, translation and exchange” has just been published and it is a great one, if I might say so myself! Mavis Jones, Brenda Ross, Alyssa Cloth...
Time flies! You can tell that by looking at old pictures. I avoid doing that, so I prefer looking at my old blog posts. It has been almost one year since I last blogged...
Are you interested in Global Health? We are! So we are very happy that the upcoming (the 9th to be precise) European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health is going to be held...
picture credit Who amongst us – parent or not- has not wondered what are the effects on using computers, mobile phones and the internet for children and young adolescents? The media certainly talk...
*picture credit As part our special issue “Communication Technology, Media Use and the Health of our Kids“, Fong-Ching Chang and colleagues just published a study on online gaming and online risk taking and...
picture credit Racial and ethnic disparities in infant health are common worldwide and of particular interest in countries that are highly ethnically admixed, like many South American countries. We recently published a study that...
In developed countries, the vast majority of preventable causes of premature morbidity and mortality in the developed countries are accounted for by behaviour-related health risk factors, such as smoking and physical inactivity. Unemployment, on...
