picture credit As part of our special issue “Communication Technology, Media Use and the Health of our Kids”, we published a new study looking at the associations between screen-based behaviour and health complaints in adolescents. The study uses data from HBSC study and focuses on Slovak adolescents. More than 8,000 adolescents were included, aged… Read more »
2picture credit Prevalence of obesity among youth has increased and that can be attributed- amongst other factors- to increased lack of physical activity and sedentary behaviours, to which technological advances have also contributed: systematic reviews have shown that children watch on average 2-2.5 hours of television per day. As sedentary behaviours are associated with… Read more »
As you most probably know, today is the World AIDS Day so we thought it’d be a good idea to share our most recently published HIV-related papers! – HIV/AIDS knowledge among adolescents: did a prevention campaign make a difference? – Modifying nutrition and lifestyle on HIV-infected patients slows down the rate of CD4 decline: a study… Read more »
