by IHPE | Sep 15, 2015 | News
Department of Health and Human Service, Public Health Services, National Institute of Health and the National Cancer Institute. USA This book, first published in 1989 has been fully revised. It is clear and concise and should be of value to anyone working on health...
by IHPE | Sep 15, 2015 | News
David Brindle (Guardian September 2nd) highlighted the cut of £200 million in public health funding, amounting to 6.2% cuts in local councils public health budgets. For international readers, public health in England is located in local councils rather than in the...
by IHPE | Sep 15, 2015 | News
There can be no challenge to the idea that exercise is a major element in any strategy to combat obesity and important for many other aspects of physical health as well as mental health. While important across the lifespan childhood is when habits of regular exercise...
by IHPE | Sep 15, 2015 | News
In an earlier newsletter we drew attention to a Finnish paper discussing the importance of education about use of medicines in school health education. With growing concerns about antimicrobial resistance recent NICE Guidance to health professionals calls for them to...
by IHPE | Sep 15, 2015 | News
Public Health England has called for sugar-sweetened drinks to be cut from children’s daily diets and Jamie Oliver and others are calling a for a heavy tax on sugary drinks. Others have questioned the degree of focus on the single element of sugary drinks and...
