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 as a dangerous behaviour. In this recently published study , the authors aimed to assess self-medication with antibiotics in the general… Read more »
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 the Environment and Health Conference, to be held in Basel from 19 to 23 August 2013 . The call was open… Read more »
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 ago! In any case, I was looking for this post as I was about to write another post on public health… Read more »
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 analyses? The Swiss School of Public Health+ is organising an advanced statistical methods course, with a focus on the practical application… Read more »
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 through the effects of human migration and socioeconomic disruption. The authors of a recently published paper aimed to develop a list… Read more »
