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Public health – Analysis and Comment
Do guns change the ways that people engage with each other? A gun violence researcher went to Missouri to find out.
The Girls Make Your Move ads need to be supported by materials that increase girls’ beliefs in their ability and give them tools for planning to be more active.
Australian cities should be made to work for all inhabitants. This involves evenly spreading the disadvantages of industrial and commercial activities as well as the advantages of good access to services.
It’s salt awareness week. so we asked two experts to give their views.
The Flint water crisis has left people across the country wondering if lead poisoning is a problem in their community. But it’s very hard to find out how widespread this problem is.
How did lead poisoning become a persistent threat in U.S. cities? Lead paint and slumlords played key roles, but so did postwar housing policies that trapped minorities in crumbling inner cities.
A professor of economics reflects on other outbreaks to get to grips with the likely impacts of Zika.
Treating municipal water, particularly from rivers, is difficult technically and cash-strapped municipalities like Flint don’t always know the latest science.
The University of Michigan-Flint puts experts from academia in the same room as Flint community members, an innovative model for educating the community and forming the public health response.
A wake-up call from Flint: the U.S. has made great gains in reducing lead exposure, but the country is still saddled with millions of miles of water-carrying lead pipes.
Today’s medical students are tomorrow’s doctors, and they need to understand public health to better help their patients.
Treating the sick is not sustainable. We need to stop them getting sick in the first place. So why is the government cutting public health budgets?
Contraception gives women the choice of how many children to have and when to have them. This empowers them - but millions of women in Kenya do not have this choice.
Bacteria become problematic when an infection occurs and antibiotics that would have treated the infection are no longer effective.
New tests and drugs have always impacted health care. But completely different kinds of emerging technologies will soon radically alter how health care is both accessed and delivered.
Anorexia and bulimia only account for around half of eating disorders yet too often they’re the only ones we take seriously.
Mathematicians are a secret weapon when it comes to preparing for outbreaks of diseases like Ebola.
Public health is not the only way to manage epidemic outbreaks like the Ebola virus.
Services like Facebook and YouTube may have the upper hand when it comes to getting people to give up cigarettes.
Convincing the public to not just take part in but to design and run research programmes is providing new behavioural insights for doctors.
India’s Modi-led progress on sanitation, rivers and life insurance is overshadowed by the need for a professionally staffed public health service.
African health leaders do not often get the chance to tell the stories of their public health achievements and challenges.
How Premier League teams would be arranged if table was according to their area’s health.
Study of Pennsylvania, which has had a surge in unconventional drilling with fracking, suggests a link between fracking and higher levels of radon.