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C3 Collaborating for Health believes that only by working together can we make it easier to be healthy.

Urban green spaces

26 April 2013
The journal Psychological Science has published a fascinating study about the connection between physical environment and human health. It has long been acknowledged that the physical environment has a major impact on psychological and mental health and wellbeing....
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China: 1.2m premature deaths…

03 April 2013
A study led by an institute at the University of Washington has found that outdoor air pollution contributed to 1.2 million premature deaths in China during 2010. Researchers have estimated the loss of 25 million healthy years due to ambient particulate matter...
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NCDs and low-carbon development

15 February 2013
C3 attended a one-day conference on 12 February, entitled ‘preventing global NCDs through low-carbon development’ at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, whose main message was that health/NCD arguments really can help to shore up the arguments...
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Sign the Doha Declaration

03 December 2012
The 18th ‘Conference of the Parties’ (COP18) – the UN Climate Change Conference – is currently ongoing in Doha, Qatar (here >>), and C3 (as a member of the Climate and Health Council) has been involved in the drafting of a new ‘Doha Declaration...
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An ‘uncashed dividend’

14 August 2012
A report by the Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA) and The Climate Institute in Australia has put a new and positive spin on the need for urgent action on climate change: namely, the ‘co-benefits’ for health. The report is a punchy summary of the various positive...
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Maintain the momentum

In the relative calm between a highly successful Olympics and the start of the Paralympics, discussion in the UK media is turning to the legacy of the Games for physical activity. The prime minister has guaranteed funding for elite sports for an extra two years...
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An obese planet?

21 June 2012
As the Rio+20 summit on sustainable development continues, a report in BMC Public Health, by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has highlighted a link between our excess weight and the increasing stress that humans are placing on...
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Rio+20 – an opportunity

20 June 2012
Today, 20 June 2012, is the start of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (‘Rio+20’), 20 years since the historic ‘Earth Summit’, in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The 1992 Summit put people at the centre of concerns for sustainable development – entitled...
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Food deserts: reality or myth?

18 April 2012
The concept of the food desert – an urban area in which access to affordable, good-quality fresh foods are limited – particularly in deprived urban areas of the United States, has been taken up by public-health advocates including Michelle Obama. Where access...
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Heart health in urban environments

16 February 2012
As the world’s population becomes urbanised, with city populations growing by about a million people every week, urban health becomes increasingly important – an estimated 75 per cent of the population will be living in cities by 2050. The World Heart Federation...
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