International Journal of Public Health Blog
At least that’s what Guidelines say you should do! And -most importantly- what children should do as well! According to UK Guidelines young children should have at least 60 minutes per day...
Do you have an interest in applied data analysis? Do you want to learn how to analyze complex exposure-response patterns and learn all about the modern ways of thinking about confounding? Then the Swiss...
Imagine an ordinary day. You wake up, eat your bacon cereal and off you go to work. Only you step into what seems to be an image from the apocalypse: there is thick smog...
I love social media. I love to use it both personally and professionally (and I am keeping the two separate). I have also been known to bug my work colleagues and professors to start...
The Swiss School of Public Health+ has just announced a new course entitled “Qualitative research in health: an introduction to qualitative research methods“. As the title suggests, this course aims to enable participants to...
We recently published a study * at the International Journal of Public Health, that looks into the prevalence of the “sandwich generation” in Ireland and its impact on self-reported health. I must confess: until...
Mortality patterns in Europe after 1990 have been extensively analyzed. Such patterns, however, have not been adequately studied for the periods before that. In a recently published study at the International Journal of Public...
The Swiss School of Public Health+ has just announced a new course for the upcoming Spring: this will be a 3 day course on statistical modeling with emphasis on logistic regression. The course is...
In a recently published study at the International Journal of Public Health, the authors aimed to investigate health-promoting behaviours and their determinants, including social support and sociodemographic characteristics in Iranian women. In addition, womens’...
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...
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...
We are happy to announce a course on Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis offered by the Swiss School of Public Health + (SSPH+) . This 3 day course aims to enable PhD students to conduct...
Antimicrobial resistance is a major public health problem and has severe implications. There is a correlation between antibiotic misuse, self-medication with antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance. This is why the WHO describes self-medication with antibiotics...
A while ago, we announced a call for systematic reviews on topics relevant issues addressed at the Conference Environment and Health 2013 ; the winner of the call would win a travel award to...
Time flies. I just realised that once more, as I was looking for an older post which I thought was 2-3 months old, only to find out that I wrote it almost a year...
Do you have to deal with clustered data and would like to know how to define the appropriate analysis methods for your dataset? Do you want to learn how to perform and evaluate such...
Climate change might impact health through temperature changes, extreme weather events, air pollution, as well as through exacerbations of food shortages and vector- food- and water-borne diseases. Moreover, climate change might also impact health...
Evidence supports the beneficial health impact of an increase in primary care physicians for underserved populations. However, given the shortage of primary care physicians in many countries, the authors of this recently published paper...
The next course announced from the Swiss School of Public Health+ is practical introduction to the free, open-source statistical software R! If you are one of those people who appreciate the flexibility of R ...
A newly published study in the International Journal of Public Health sought to describe health literacy and its association with substance use among young men in Switzerland. Data were taken from the Cohort Study...
