International Journal of Public Health Blog
As you most probably know, today is the World AIDS Day so we thought it’d be a good idea to share our most recently published HIV-related papers! – HIV/AIDS knowledge among adolescents: did a prevention...
We are happy to announce a Call for Papers on e-cigarettes and public health! We invite primary research documenting the epidemiology of e-cigarette use, the impact of its use and the effects of alternate...
Good news in the anti-smoking front! As reported last week, a draft legislation to make tobacco products less attractive to young people in EU has just been agreed between the Council of...
A while ago, we asked on Twitter whether people used Social Media for Public Health teaching. We received some interesting answers (which led to this post), amongst which was...
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...
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...
The idea for this post came -as often- from a news item this morning: a recently published study found that bullying by siblings might have detrimental effects on children’s mental health – similar to...
A while ago, we had published a post presenting you with vintage public health posters which proved to be quite popular! It took me a while to have the idea to look for vintage...
Here at the International Journal of Public Health we are interested in following the latest developments in technology as related to Public Health (and we have a facebook and twitter account to prove it!)....
A while ago, we had posted about a study we published, regarding an online registry fro knowledge translation methods and tools (available for FREE download on pdf and html). We have just published a...
A while ago we reproduced a lightbulb joke, relevant to public health research. We now come back with another one! (source) – How many public health people does it take to change a...
We continue our series of Meet the Blogger articles, by a contribution from Katherine Welch, in collaboration with the Cancer inCYTES Blog. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Although largely framed as a legal issue, a social issue, and...
A few weeks ago, we had discussed whether about mobile applications used in public health. Today, I would like to share with you yet another very interesting use of mobile applications, which I found...
We are happy to announce the new course of the Swiss School of Public Health + entitled “Genes: Are they key to Public Health?”. This course provides an introduction into studying the genetic architecture...
The Swiss School of Public Health+ announced a media training workshop on communication skills, to be taught on October 29th and 30th in Bern, Switzerland. The aim of the workshop is to help students...
The Swiss School of Public Health + (SSPH+) has announced new courses! Click on the links below for more details! 02.02.2012-03.02.2012 Statistical Methods for Epidemiology Register Online Prof. Timothy Lash, Aarhus University Hospital &...
The Internatonal Journal of Public Health is very much focused on social inequalities in health! We recently published a special issue on the subject, as well as a Supplement on social determinants of child...
Urbanisation is a problem that has been recently recognised by the WHO as posing major dangers to health: with more than 50% of the world’s population living in urban areas, it is inevitable that...
