Breastfeeding is an important factor to giving a child the best start in life and is central to fostering optimal health and development in the early years and helps contribute to reducing health inequalities.
World Breastfeeding Week provides an opportunity to promote the benefits of…
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Vol 7 Issue 2 – June 2013
Welcome to Public Health News in Ireland
Inside this issue
IPH Public Health Open Conference – 8 October 2013
8th Global Conference on Health Promotion – putting health in all policies
IPH vacancy - Consultant in Public Health
IPH welcomes £…
Date: 25 June 2013
Source: Irish Times
The average person will not walk much more than 800 metres to the local shop for a pint of milk, about 900 metres to school and just over one kilometre to work. It’s not only the distance of the journey that affects a person’s choice of whether to go by…
NI Health Minister Edwin Poots has said that breastfeeding gives babies a great start in life.
The Minister was speaking as he launched a new Breastfeeding Strategy for Northern Ireland. The launch took place at a joint UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative and Public Health Agency (PHA) conference…
IPH welcome £9m boost for research into public health which will include ageing, mental wellbeing and children's health. IPH is a partner in the UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health (NI), one of the UK's first Centre's of Excellence for public health research. The funding has been award…
Date: 12 June 2012
Source: BBC Good Morning Ulster
Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme referred to the recent walkability conference jointly hosted by IPH, Centre of Excellence for Public Health (Queen’s University Belfast) and HRB Centre for Health and Diet Research (UCC) to explore…
A key challenge for those working to increase the levels of physical activity in the community is to understand how to increase the walkability of our built environments. On 10 June 2013 IPH, Centre of Excellence for Public Health (NI), (QUB) and HRB Centre for Health and Diet Research (UCC)…
Date: 11 June 2013
Source: Irish Examiner
The layout of Ireland’s towns and villages must be overhauled if the country is to adequately tackle the growing obesity crisis. The claim was made by health experts at a major conference at University College Cork (UCC) which heard that existing…
Date: 11 June 2013
Source: http://www.thejournal.ie/irish-people-walking-levels-944492-Jun2013
DO YOU WALK every day – or is walking something you only do to and from the car door?
Only one-third of the Irish population is meeting the minimum recommended weekly levels of physical activity,…
Only one-third of Irish population meeting minimum recommended weekly levels of physical activity
Experts say that the layout and design of our towns and cities need to be improved to make it easier and more attractive to walk and cycle
Low levels of walking and other physical activity in…
