After a 7.0 earthquake with 30 aftershocks, close to the surface and to the capital city, much of Port-au-Prince is now rubble. Although this just attains the category of major quake, in terms of destruction and casualties, it is one of the worst ever.
Posts Tagged ‘public health’
Public health implications of the Haiti earthquake
Posted in Disaster relief, tagged Haiti, HIV, International aid, Malnutrition, public health on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
12 Steps to Better Public Health
Posted in Alcohol, Health Inequalities, Obesity, tagged 20mph, Alcohol, chlamydia, cycling, election, Food, manifesto, minimum pricing, Obesity, olympics, organ donation, public health, school meals, smoking, The Guardian, Tobacco, transfats on January 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Faculty of Public Health today publishes our joint manifesto on public health, alongside the Royal Society of Public Health. 12 Steps to Better Public Health offers a dozen practical recommendations that, if adopted by the next government, will improve the UK’s health and well-being for the new decade. The joint public health manifesto calls for: [...]
Notorious or just unsung? Let’s have some nice news about NICE for once
Posted in Health Inequalities, Obesity, tagged NICE, Polly Toynbee, public health on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“A Stalinist NHS quango” is just one example of the kind of newspaper coverage that the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has been hit with according to the Guardian Columnist Polly Toynbee. “Notorious for denying life-saving drugs to terminally-ill NHS patients” was another, hardly more measured, journalistic description Toynbee chose to quote [...]
Our Health, Our Planet – why health practitioners must act on climate change now (2min)
Posted in Climate change, tagged Climate change, health practitioners, public health on November 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
