In our last blog post we asked for examples of good data visualisations and two of note were Cancer Research UK's "The causes of cancer you can control" and "Cancer, anyone?" on Visual.ly. Interestingly, both of these were cancer related – …
...national cancer registration data. Five years ago the cancer registries in England were eight separate organisations each collecting data in different ways on different computer systems; in some places staging...
Anyone who has read some of the earlier entries in this blog cannot fail to be impressed by the speed at which our public health science is evolving and the rate at which our medical microbiology is modernising. Of course, …
Clive Humby, one of the brains behind Tesco Clubcards, said “Data is the new oil,” by which he meant that there is commercial value in the exploitation of the data that is collected by business. David McCandless, author of Information …
...other changes. All school nurse services should be approachable – students shouldn’t feel embarrassed to access them. School nurses should have an active role in educating school staff and other...
If you are reading this blog on a smartphone you are not alone. 62% of UK adults have one, and this is increasing significantly each year. About a quarter of Public Health Matters’ readership access this site from a smartphone …
Monday was World Hepatitis Day, the annual awareness raising day coordinated by the World Hepatitis Alliance. Over 170 organisations who work in the field of viral hepatitis, representing every region of the world are involved, and our own Dr. Helen Harris …
...with dementia, people with mental illness, people who are bed-bound.” Here’s another example: above a certain temperature sweating becomes the only way our bodies keep cool, and at high temperatures...
This is the first in a new type of post we’ll be featuring on Public Health Matters. Routinely the Mythbuster will take aim at one of the myths, misunderstandings and...
...can also support Genomics England’s 100,000 Genome Project and the significant and important developments in Europe on rare disease registration. Establishing a national Congenital Anomaly and Rare Disease Registration Service...
