The SCPN Newsletter: Latest Articles
By Lucie Hooper, Research at Cancer Research UK In Scotland more than 1 in 4 (28%) people are obese. Being overweight and obese is the second single biggest preventable cause of cancer ...
Our final issue of 2016 focuses on workplace health, including ‘public awareness of obesity as a risk for cancer’, ‘workplace health can change: the story of tobacco ...
Dr Phyllis Easton, Health Intelligence Manager and Demonstration Programme lead, Making it Easy Survey statistics show that 23% of the Scottish population are likely to struggle with ...
The Cancer Council Australia and other NGO’s have teamed up together to support people to try a healthier lifestyle. Always tricky in our obesogenic environment surrounded by promotions to ...
Whether it’s the lack of summer weather or too much sun that is causing summertime blues, we thought this video might cheer you up. These very cute Dalmatians have a serious ...
Prof Annie S Anderson, Professor of Public Health Nutrition, University of Dundee Thank you twitter followers for a great set of questions relating to our articles on the revision of the ...
Sport England’s massive ‘This Girl Can’ campaign in 2015 reached out to women who may not have engaged with sport earlier in life or may have been “switched off” to ...
The SCPN recently came across this heart-warming story of the little man (backed by a group of alcohol campaigners) taking on the might of an international brewing empire. Everton FC is the last ...
Nominations sought Do you know someone who has made a great contribution towards reducing the burden of cancer in Scotland? Would they be a worthy winner of the Scottish Cancer ...
Jan Young, Scottish Government, Cancer Delivery Team Last month’s Public Health England (PHE) Cancer Data and Outcomes Conference 2016 focused on how data is used to drive services and ...