The 2018 meeting was held on the 14th of May 2018 in association with the Division of Population Health Sciences at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. This year the focus was on the environmental determinants of food consumption and obesity.
Professor Kevin P. Balanda from the Institute of…
A systematic review has been published on the Health Research Board (HRB) National Drugs Library: The prevalence of major mental illness, substance misuse and homelessness in Irish prisoners: systematic review and meta-analyses. The researchers reviewed eight studies on the prevalence of major…
This week, May 14 – 21, is mental health awareness week across Northern Ireland. The Public Health Agency (PHA) is focusing the week on stress and the methods to cope with life’s daily challenges. Stress is a normal biological response to difficult events in our lives such as pressures of family…
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Professor Kevin Balanda presents the findings of Work Package 4 of the EU Joint Action on Physical Activity and Nutrition (JANPA) at the final conference, in Paris on 24 November 2017.
The overall aim of the project is to contribute to halting the rise of overweight and obesity in children and…
Professor Kevin Balanda presents the main conclusions of Work Package 4 of the EU Joint Action on Physical Activity and Nutrition (JANPA) at the General Assembly of the conference, in Paris on 23 November 2017.
The overall aim of the project is to contribute to halting the rise of overweight and…
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What are the estimated costs of childhood overweight and obesity on the island of Ireland? - report (PDF, 1.5MB)
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The Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH) promotes cooperation for public health between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland by:
- strengthening public health intelligence;
- building public health capacity;
- policy and programme development and evaluation.
We work with a range of partners to bring people and organisations from across the island together to promote collective action for sustained improvements in health. Tackling inequalities in health across the island of Ireland is a focus for all our work.
