Parents often complain that their children spend too much time in front of their computer and are worried about what effect this might have to their children’s’ health. After recent reports in the news that children who spend more time in front of a screen are more likely to experience emotional distress, anxiety and… Read more »
In many population surveys, health status is represented either by self-reported specific measures or by single questions general health indicators, like the Self-Rated Health (SRH) and the Global Activity Limitation Indicator (GALI). Both of those indicators have been found to be associated with morbidity and disability, while the SRH also predicts mortality (which is… Read more »
1Last month, thousands of people walked in Istanbul, showing their support to the obesity prevention program. Obesity is a major health concern in Turkey, leading- amongst others- to cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and diabetes mellitus (DM). Those two diseases are quite prevelant in Turkey: Ischemic hear disease is the number one cause of death there… Read more »
Last week, a report on child labor in US tobacco fields from Human Rights Watch made it to a lot of news headlines. We might not used in reading about child labor in the US, however the data about child labor globally are shocking: The International Labor Organisation (ILO) estimates that there are… Read more »
