Every blogger or blog follower has a ritual of always checking a few blogs no matter what! Some people prefer to do it via a feed reader but I am doing it the old-fashioned way: bookmark the page and go and check it from time to time. I guess I like the excitement of wating… Read more »
9Health and risk behaviours might occur in clusters. For example, someone who eats a lot of fruit might also exercise a lot; similarly, someone who drinks a lot might also engage in dangerous driving. Our recently published article “Clustering of health and risk behaviour in immigrant and indigenous Dutch residents aged 19–40 years” sought to investigate… Read more »
Watching tv, reading newspapers, surfing the net…as all these activities are done seated, they do not exactly help much with exercise. In addition, they have also been associated to obesity. And this is where the image of a couch potato comes, munching crisps and chocolate in front of a screen. But what would happen if… Read more »
We are happy to announce a new course from the Swiss School of Public Health +, entitled “How to pass your research protocol through an ethics review committee”. The course will focus on what an ethics review committee looks for in a research protocol and what its primary concerns are which ethics guidelines need to… Read more »
