Creating Healthy Communities, Healthy Homes, Healthy People: Initiating a Research Agenda on the Built Environment and Public Health

Research Synopses: Public Health and Healthy Ageing

The Public Health and Healthy Ageing Research Group of the HKU Faculty of Dentistry is committed to protecting and improving oral health for all people by performing and synthesising clinical, community-level, and educational research, and by applying public health sciences. Below is a selection of summaries of research findings published by the Public Health and Healthy Ageing Research Group, ...

HealtHy people depend on HealtHy

Inequities in the Freedom to Lead a Flourishing and Healthy Life: Issues for Healthy Public Policy

There are many reasons for the health inequities that we see around the world today. Public policy and the way society organises its affairs affects the economic, social and physical factors that influence the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age - the social determinants of health. Tackling health inequities is a political issue that requires leadership, political cour...

Healthy buildings, healthy people

When researcher Melkam Kebede started her five-year fellowship at the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia, she was struck by the abundance of natural light and design features that encouraged people to move and mingle. “I’ve worked in many places before, but never seen laboratories with so much natural light,” says Kebede, whose research is on the links between type 2 ...

Bellagio Report on Healthy Agriculture, Healthy Nutrition, Healthy People

The Bellagio Report on Healthy Agriculture, Healthy Nutrition, Healthy People is the result of the meeting held at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Lake Como, Italy 30 October-1 November, 2012. The meeting was science-based but policy-oriented. The role and amount of healthy and unhealthy fats, with attention to the relative content of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, sugar, and pa...