The Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH) has welcomed the latest publication of Northern Ireland’s Health Survey 2017/18 which release information on the health behaviours of the population.
The survey of 3,355 people aged 16 and over living in Northern Ireland gives an overview of lifestyle behaviours such as smoking, alcohol consumption and general health.
Some of the key findings include;
General health
Audio, video and slides from the event are now available to watch/download here
Childhood obesity will be associated with more than 30,000 premature deaths in Northern Ireland and cost £2.2 billion, a public health symposium in Belfast was told.
The symposium hosted yesterday by the Institute of Public Health in Ireland presented new research on the economic and moral imperatives for tackling childhood obesity in Northern Ireland.
Audio, video and slides from the event are now available to watch/download below.
24 September 2018: 10:30 am – 13:00 pm
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The Faculty of Public Health's Annual Summer Scientific Meeting was held on 30th & 31st of May 2018 in Dublin.
The ECO2018 Congress on Obesity was held from 23rd to 26th of May 2018 in Vienna, Austria.
The ECO2018 Congress on Obesity was held from 23rd to 26th of May 2018 in Vienna, Austria.
Professor Kevin P. Balanda from the IPH contributed a session to the JANPA Workshop. The brief session looked at mobilising data and research to estimate the lifetime costs of childhood obesity using the JANPA costing model. It outlined the data and research required, described some of the challenges and gave tips for overcoming these challenges. It ended with a brief overview of the opportunities that exist for countries in conducting such study in their country.
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 Public health was delighted to present a poster on the Lifetime financial cost of childhood obesity on the island of Ireland.
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University College Cork's School of Public Health will host a conference in conjunction with the Society for Social Medicine and the European Congress of Epidemiology from Wednesday 4th to Friday 6th of September 2019.
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The overall aim of this EU project was to contribute to halting the rise of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents by 2020. JANPA stands for “Joint Action on Nutrition and Physical Activity”.
