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Have smartphones and ubiquitous internet access affected sedentary time among children and adolescents?

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

However, few countries have similar physical activity surveillance systems, and even fewer have data from before the 2007 advent of smartphones. His research interests focus on the health effects of physical activity on non-communicable diseases.

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IPH marks 25 years of shaping public health policy

Institute of Public Health

Smoking rates have fallen since the ban – from around 1 in 4 adults in Ireland in 2002 to less than 1 in 5 adults in 2022. In Northern Ireland, around 114,000 homes moved from permitting smoking to being smoke-free between 2012 and 2019, with 6 out of every 7 homes considered smoke-free by 2019.

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The beginning and end of Monday Morning

Monday Morning

Since I became dean, we have endured challenges we never could have predicted, like Hurricane Katrina, which struck with great brutality in late August 2005, and the Great Recession, which began in December 2007 and exacted tremendous pain. In 2018, we saw the Confederate statue on our campus toppled—a good thing.