Imagine an ordinary day. You wake up, eat your bacon cereal and off you go to work. Only you step into what seems to be an image from the apocalypse: there is thick smog everywhere, you cannot see more than 20 meters and have to dodge buses who have been trying to find their way… Read more »
I love social media. I love to use it both personally and professionally (and I am keeping the two separate). I have also been known to bug my work colleagues and professors to start using social media themselves wearing their professional hats. My endeavours have not been met with much success (yet) but I am… Read more »
3The Swiss School of Public Health+ has just announced a new course entitled “Qualitative research in health: an introduction to qualitative research methods“. As the title suggests, this course aims to enable participants to define the different types of qualitative research and their strengths and limitations. Furthermore, the course will provide an introduction to methods… Read more »
We recently published a study * at the International Journal of Public Health, that looks into the prevalence of the “sandwich generation” in Ireland and its impact on self-reported health. I must confess: until now I only knew of the term “sandwich child” or middle child syndrome, as I am a middle child myself! 😉 So… Read more »
Mortality patterns in Europe after 1990 have been extensively analyzed. Such patterns, however, have not been adequately studied for the periods before that. In a recently published study at the International Journal of Public Health, the authors sought to investigate the patterns of mortality between 1955 and 1989 in 25 European countries and the role… Read more »
