This year we launched our Rebuilding public health: Restoring the foundations of prevention report, which set out the ...

Ib, has been identified in the UK, raising concerns due to its historical association with more severe illness and higher ...

The conference is the BMA’s policy forum for public health doctors. You don’t need to be a BMA member to attend. The theme for the BMA’s 2026 public health medicine conference is “Rebuilding Public ...

Public health is as old as civilization. As soon as people began to live together in settled places and formed agriculture-based societies, they realized that to avoid spreading illness throughout the ...

Public health is what a nation does together as a society to create and ensure the conditions in which everyone can be healthy. 1 Periodically, circumstances call for a dramatic shift in the ways in ...

The concept of global health developed gradually over eight decades. In the 1940s, the term "global health" first appeared in the scientific literature. 1 The World Health Organization (WHO) used this ...

Public health policies are laws, regulations, and decisions undertaken by governments and health organizations to promote and protect people’s health. Public health policies refer to the decisions and ...

A pre-school diet and physical activity programme does not improve children’s calorie intake or overall physical activity ...

Lately, coverage and commentary about vaccines have dominated public health news. Reducing public health to vaccines is dangerous. Keeping the public focused on such a narrow, controversial and ...

Public health saved your life today, and you didn’t even know it. That’s the message behind “The Invisible Shield” on PBS, a four-part documentary series that uncovers some of the little-known work ...