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

Taking an ecosystems view

02 December 2011
Climate change is currently being discussed in Durban (see also C3’s news alert on climate change and health here >>), and a recent UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) issue paper focuses on another important aspect of the issue for those concerned...
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COP17 and NCDs

01 December 2011
The latest round of international discussions on climate change, COP17 (the 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), has begun in Durban, South Africa, with our window of opportunity to take action on changing...
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Neighbourhood impact on health

20 October 2011
A study of 4,500 mothers living in public housing in which at least 40 per cent of residents were on incomes below the federal poverty level has been published, showing a link between affluence of the neighbourhood and risk of obesity. Published in the New England...
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Putting a price on green

03 June 2011
Research into the health benefits of green space has been estimated in the UK as being worth up to £300 per person per year – partly because of the opportunities that it provides for physical activity, but also the wellbeing effects of being in the natural world....
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Get outside – feel better!

08 February 2011
A review published in Environmental Science and Technology analysed a number of trials of physical activity, participants in which reported that exercising outside then gives more energy, increased feelings of revitalisation and decreased tension and depression,...
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Does central heating fuel obesity?

26 January 2011
Scientists in the United Kingdom have found an interesting link between warmer indoor temperatures in the winter and increases in obesity prevalence. The study, recently published in Obesity Reviews, also focused on acute and longer-term health effects from time...
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US: diabetes and pollution link

07 October 2010
New research from the Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School has shown a link between type 2 diabetes and levels of particulate air pollution, corroborating earlier studies that found a link between higher insulin resistance and particulate exposure...
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High risk of CVD in Kenya

01 October 2010
Although infectious diseases remain the principal cause of death in Africa, coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke are emerging as the leading cause of death among the older population in Kenya. This epidemiological transition has been marked by the particular...
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CVD prevention can widen inequalities

25 August 2010
To prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD), primary prevention aims to tackle and reduce the major risk factors that are related to tobacco control and diet. One approach to achieving this reduction is an approach that tackles those at high risk. Usually this involves...
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Urban-rural diabetes risk in India

13 May 2010
A study published in April’s PLoS Medicine has found that the obesity and diabetes epidemic in India is strongly associated with rural–urban migration. The study worked with over 6,500 participants, including both migrants as well their non-migrant, rural...
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