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Alliance Alert
OxHA's Alliance Alerts provide an insight into major news stories and trends throughout the year, covering all stakeholders – government, business, academia, local communities and others – and all the risk factors and diseases.
The Alliance Alerts provide an overview of media coverage of issues pertinent to chronic diseases, drawing out themes and trends as the stories develop. To sort by theme, choose from the list in the box on the right.
- Cracking down on tobacco
- 30 Jun 2009 | Greece and Australia implement tough new laws
- LEANWorks!
- 29 Jun 2009 | CDC launches website to help SMEs with workplace health
- Transition in Bangladesh
- 23 Jun 2009 | Research assesses ‘massive’ epidemiological changes in rural Matlab
- Obesity raises endometrial cancer risk
- 22 Jun 2009 | Risk can be up to 22 times greater for obese women who go through early menopause
- UK: higher cancer risk for men
- 17 Jun 2009 | Behavioural differences between sexes highlighted
- Free fruit for EU children
- 16 Jun 2009 | €90 million for fresh fruit and veg
- Global Alliance for Chronic Disease research
- 15 Jun 2009 | Leading health agencies pledge collaboration on NCDs
- Chronic disease initiative launched
- 12 Jun 2009 | UnitedHealth and NHLBI collaborate on network of 11 centres of excellence
- ‘Heart age calculator’
- 10 Jun 2009 | A new way to look at an individual’s risk of developing CVD
- UK business: £2bn smoking price tag
- 08 Jun 2009 | LSE publishes first estimate of direct costs of smoking