Monthly Archives: January 2013

Life course influences in health: special issue from the International Journal of Public Health, including three free studies!

The International Journal of Public Health has just published a special issue on life course influences on health and health inequalities. Life course research explores the long-term effects of biological, physical and social exposures on health during all stages of life and across generations. Until now, however, most of the research on this subject has… Read more »

Call for Reviews– WIN a travel award to Basel, Switzerland!

We are happy to share the following announcement with you:  The International Journal of Public Health (IJPH) (Impact Factor 2011: 2.539) invites submissions of systematic REVIEWS on internationally relevant public health topics related to issues also of relevance at the Conference Environment and Health 2013 in Basel (Switzerland).– the joint annual conferences of ISEE, ISES,… Read more »

Hot off the press: Poor health, employment transitions and gender

We recently published a very interesting paper looking at health selection in the context of transitions across employment statuses, with focus on gender differences. The paper, written by Myung Ki and colleagues, uses data from the British Household Panel Survey and examines more than 60,000 employment transitions in almost 8,000 individuals. The authors report that… Read more »

Meet the Blogger! Marie Ennis-O’Connor talks about blogging and breast cancer survivorship

After two very interesting interviews with Kishan Karripannon and Tamara Bugembe, we continue our series of Meet the Blogger*  with a guest blog post of blogger Marie Ennis-O’Connor. Marie Ennis-O’Connor is a board member of Europa Donna Ireland –  The Irish Breast Cancer Campaign (www.europadonnaireland.ie) an advocacy group that is one of 46 EUROPA DONNA member… Read more »

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