BU School of Public Health Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The core of epidemiology is understanding why some groups of people are healthier or sicker than others, so we can use that evidence to improve everyone’s health. Epidemiologists work on a huge range of health concerns, from infertility to healthy aging and everything in between. Consider the environment of the program overall.

Health Education and Training Organizations 98

Health Education and Training Organizations Biostatistics Health Equity Ageing and Health 98

Better Health For All

OCTOBER 17, 2024

An ageing population with multiple long-term conditions highlights the need for training tomorrow’s doctors with skills such as Generalism, leadership and an interprofessional approach to patient care. COVID-19 has further emphasised the significance of public health as a speciality and rekindled wider interest in health inequalities [1].

Occupational Health and Safety 84

Occupational Health and Safety Health Inequalities Health Education Ageing and Health 84

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

Iñaki Permanyer and Júlia Almeida Calazans Policymakers and scholars are increasingly interested in monitoring and curbing health inequalities. Measuring how ‘similar’ or ‘dissimilar’ the different causes of death are can help us understand global health inequalities and patterns of mortality.

Health Disparities 52

Health Disparities Health Inequalities Ageing and Health Social Determinants of Health 52

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

APRIL 16, 2024

To illustrate this, researchers highlighted the impact that overadjustment would have on their total effect of interest ( educational inequalities in health among people with chronic kidney disease ) by building various models with different levels of adjustment and explicitly comparing the results.

Health Education and Training Organizations 52

Health Education and Training Organizations Health Inequalities Ageing and Health Social Determinants of Health 52

BU School of Public Health Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The core of epidemiology is understanding why some groups of people are healthier or sicker than others, so we can use that evidence to improve everyone’s health. Epidemiologists work on a huge range of health concerns, from infertility to healthy aging and everything in between. Consider the environment of the program overall.

Health Education and Training Organizations 52

Health Education and Training Organizations Biostatistics Health Equity Ageing and Health 52