03 Jan 2022
Engaging the world’s nurses in addressing chronic disease through oral health
Earlier this year the World Health Organization brought into sharp focus the need to address Oral Health - with its links to chronic diseases (non-communicable diseases or NCDs). C3 has convened a global group of nurse experts to discuss the issue of oral health, disease prevention, and the role of nurses.
27 Dec 2021
Engaging children and their families during half term
October half term is always a challenge for families with uncertain weather but needing to occupy children with fun and physical activity. In Boscombe, United Kingdom, C3’s CHESS Plan Coordinator, Zoe, provided lots of fun, social activities and opportunities for adults and children to learn new skills all at the same time.
20 Dec 2021
COVID-19: Supporting nurses’ resilience
With funding from The Burdett Trust for Nursing, the aim of Supporting nurses’ resilience has been to acknowledge and explore the challenges faced by many ethnic minorities nurses and healthcare assistants (HCAs) living and working in the London boroughs of Brent, Ealing, and Harrow especially during COVID-19. Read our report of findings and workplace recommendations.
16 Dec 2021
Healthy Environments & Health Empowerment, lessons from the Caribbean
Small Island Developing States of the Eastern Caribbean have been called the most disaster prone countries of the world, and simultaneously have some of the highest disability and death from chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes. With the changing climate there has been emergence of new communicable diseases and re-emergence of others as well as an impact on food and nutrition security.
23 Nov 2021
Obesity, a cancer risk (part of London Global Cancer Week)
As part of London Global Cancer Week, C3 was joined by metabolic surgeon, based in Malaysia, Dr Andrea Ooi, who shared her thoughts and findings on the cancer risks of obesity.
17 Nov 2021
Nurses addressing Oral Health
Earlier this year WHO brought into sharp focus the need to address Oral Health - with its links to chronic diseases - and countries are urged to address those shared risk factors, and to shift their focus to the prevention of oral health disease and away from traditional curative approaches.
25 Oct 2021
Obesity at work – how women suffer more
45% of employers in the UK said that they were less likely to recruit candidates living with obesity. Furthermore, people living with obesity have lower starting pay, lower co-worker ratings and lower hiring success. Read a summary of Institute for Employment Studies Stephen Bevan's talk about how women living with obesity are discriminated against in the workplace.
14 Oct 2021
Innovations in cardiovascular care from India: C3’s International Seminar with Prof. Dorairaj Prabhakaran
How should healthcare professionals go about explaining to patients what hypertension is and why it poses a risk to their health, when there are no symptoms and the patients feel fine? This was just one of several key questions discussed among attendees at the end of C3’s International Seminar, delivered from New Delhi.
10 Oct 2021
World Mental Health Day 2021: The link between active travel and mental health
There is a reason sports medicine doctor Jordan Metzl described exercise as a miracle drug in 2013. The physical health benefits are well-documented and unparalleled. What about for mental health?
27 Sep 2021
Insight session in Abbeville for ASPIRE
In early September, we ran an initial data gathering session with members of the community in the northern French town of Abbeville in Picardy. As a partner in Project ASPIRE, C3 is engaging with 7 different communities across the south of England and the north of France to survey their environments using CHESS™, with a view to reducing obesity and enhancing employability.