International Journal of Public Health Blog
* This is a guest blog post regarding our recently published paper entitled “Short-term effects of fine particulate matter pollution on daily health events in Latin America: a systematic review and meta-analysis”. This post...
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...
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...
picture credit A few weeks ago, we announced the winner of our call for reviews on Global Health. Since we had a lot of very good submissions, we thought it’d be fair to...
We are happy and excited to announce the winner of our Review Competition related to the 9th European Congress in Tropical Medicine and International Health (ECTMIH) (this year’s topic: Driving the best science to meet global health...
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...
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...
Health communication strategies are used more and more in prevention interventions for HIV/AIDS. In a recently published systematic review , Zhiwen Xiao , Seth M Noar and Lily Zeng investigate whether communication strategies have...
Heatwaves can have a grave impact on human health and life; the 2003 heatwave in Europe, for instance, resulted in more than 70,000 excess deaths. The need to reduce the harm caused by heatwaves...
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,...
