Good news in the anti-smoking front! As reported last week, a draft legislation to make tobacco products less attractive to young people in EU has just been agreed between the Council of Ministers and the Public Health Committee MEPs. This basically is a legislation update of the EU Tobacco Directive and is focusing… Read more »
Two different stories on children and technology use have caught my eye recently: One one hand computer coding seems to soon be included in the school curriculum in England; on the other concerns have been raised regarding the effect that computer tablets might have in the development of children. These different news items show the… Read more »
Low response rates present a common problem in epidemiological surveys. People with foreign background might show lower response rates, due to factors such as language problems. Different strategies to increase response rates have been used and their effect differs. In a recently published study at the International Journal of Public Health, the authors studied… Read more »
We are happy to announce the recent publication of a paper stemming from the HBSC study, examining the role of health behaviour and gender in educational inequalities in adolescent life satisfaction. But first things first: What is the HBSC study? The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children is a cross-national study looking into young people’s… Read more »
If you are interested in social inequalities in Roma people as much as we do (recent examples here, here and here), you might be interested in having two newly published reports that were produced in collaboration with the WHO offices in Bratislava and Venice. The first one is on health limits of health care provided… Read more »
In our previous blog post we discussed current rates of smoking across the world. According to this recent study Switzerland, where our Journal is based, is amongst the countries with a high prevalence of smoking and high consumption, a combination which implies higher health risks. It is, therefore, important to examine different mechanisms that… Read more »
This Saturday use a lighter. Not to light a cigarette, of course, but only the virtual candles of the birthday cake of smoking awareness. For on January 11th 1964, the Surgeon General of the United States, Luther Terry, produced a 387 page report connecting smoking to lung cancer. (technically, there have been other reports prior… Read more »
Happy New Year everyone! We are back for good and this is officially our first post of 2014! Shortly before we left, we had talked about new year’s resolutions . I cannot prove it, but I am quite sure that exercising more is one of the top resolutions of this year too (by the way… Read more »
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