Category: Health

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently published a report on women’s health and well-being in Europe. The report reveals that women in Europe are living longer and healthier lives, with significant progress made in ‘gender equality and other social, economic and environmental determinants of women’s health and well-being.’ However, Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO Regional Director…

Over half of men living in Britain feel more comfortable discussing mental health issues such as depression with their barbers than their doctors, according to a survey from men’s mental health charity The Lions Barber Collective and male grooming brand The Bluebeards Revenge. The survey, which sampled 1908 men currently living in Britain*, revealed that…

The Department of Health has recently published a report on the health and well-being of year 10 secondary school pupils in England. The report, entitled ‘Longitudinal Study of Young People in England cohort 2: health and wellbeing at wave 2’, surveyed pupils in 2005 and 2014 and compared the results. Marked differences were noted, with 2014 pupils…

Yoga can be a ‘vehicle for improving self-image’, according to an article published in The Guardian. The article mainly focuses on Jessamyn Stanley, a yoga teacher, who has become an ‘accidental poster girl’ for the body positivity movement that ‘encourages people to accept themselves as they are and to believe they’re capable of achieving their…

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust has recently published a case study entitled, ‘Empowering staff to make informed wellbeing choices.’ The Occupational Health and Wellbeing Service set up a dedicated  team that introduced a variety of programmes to empower and support people to make informed and balanced choices. The team uses the motto ‘keep…

It’s good to see complementary therapy having a presence at the 2016 Summer Olympics, as a number of athletes show signs of cupping. Cupping has been especially embraced by Team USA and its swimmers and gymnasts. Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time, is perhaps the most notable to have been spotted in Rio with…

More than 170,000 people are living with cancer in the UK who were diagnosed in the 1970s and 1980s, according to new research released by Macmillan Cancer Support and Public Health England’s National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS). In a new report ‘Cancer: Then and Now’, Macmillan reveals for the first time the number…

Sport England has teamed up with the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership to tackle levels of inactivity in the county. The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership is made up of 37 NHS organisations and councils in the region and aims to ‘make sport and physical activity a part of daily life.’ More than…

We all need regular vitamin D for healthy bones and muscles. Vitamin D is made in the skin by sunlight and food containing the vitamin, such as oily fish, red meat, dairy products, orange juice and cereal. Public Health England recommends a daily intake of 10 micrograms and says that if you eat a healthy balanced diet…

Tackling mental illness in children should begin before they are born, at a time when expectant mothers can suffer mental health problems, say councils. The Local Government Association, which represents more than 370 councils, says this can have a potentially devastating impact on their new-born child which could set their personal and emotional development back…