Nina Navajas Pertegás, assistant professor and researcher at the UV Department of Social Work and Social Services, has carried out a study on the consequences of fatphobia and the cultural imposition of thinness through ...
Feb 19, 2021
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Actions aimed at addressing racial inequities must be a central part of the nation's response and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report concludes. The report outlines a set of equity-focused programmatic and policy ...
Jan 18, 2021
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Schools in Ireland will close for the rest of the month as a "tsunami of infection" threatens to overwhelm the healthcare service, the government said on Wednesday.
Jan 6, 2021
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England is entering a third national lockdown that will last at least six weeks, as authorities struggle to stem a surge in COVID-19 infections that threatens to overwhelm hospitals around the U.K.
Jan 5, 2021
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Hailed by some but held up elsewhere as a cautionary tale, Sweden's "softer" approach to curbing the COVID-19 pandemic has made headlines around the world.
Dec 17, 2020
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Studies show that culture and the arts can have positive effects on health.
Nov 16, 2020
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Unlike in Western countries like Australia, traditional Asian cultures place a heavy emphasis on filial piety—the expectation children will support their parents in old age.
Oct 23, 2020
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COVID-19 outbreaks and the resulting lockdowns, particularly in Victoria, have adversely affected many people's mental health.
Oct 21, 2020
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries paused their breast cancer screening programmes. A new study, presented at the 12th European Breast Cancer Conference, suggests that the disruption to screening could result in ...
Oct 1, 2020
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In a special session addressing global mental health before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic held at the ESCMID Conference on Coronavirus Disease (ECCVID) Professor Vikram Patel (Harvard Medical School, U.S.) will ...
Sep 26, 2020
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