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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.
- UK counts cost of poor diet and inactivity
- 10 Oct 2008 | New toolkit to help local authorities tackle obesity
- Fears over electronic cigarettes
- 09 Oct 2008 | Booming sales of unregulated product
- Obesity, meat/dairy and prostate cancer
- 08 Oct 2008 | New reports show importance of healthy eating and weight control
- Lung disease to wreak havoc in China
- 04 Oct 2008 | ~ 83 mill deaths by 2033 without urgent action
- Psychiatric sick leave 'link to early death'
- 03 Oct 2008 | Another reason to take workplace health seriously
- Hollywood stars were paid to smoke
- 28 Sep 2008 | Tobacco endorsement rife in mid-20th century
- Companies save in promoting health
- 26 Sep 2008 | Lower insurance costs for businesses engaged in health promotion
- Estimating the economic burden of CVD
- 25 Sep 2008 | Brazil: the cost is billions of dollars each year
- Evidence on overweight and heart attack
- 23 Sep 2008 | Obesity can be more of an influence even than smoking
- Exercise can ‘cut diabetes risk' in women
- 18 Sep 2008 | 7-week programme shown to increase chance of staying healthy