4/4 Features associated with lower obesity included community beautification, bike lanes, pedestrian safety and traffic signals. Indicators of community disorder were associated with more obesity.
3/n After accounting for many other factors, we found that obesity rates were 40% lower in communities scoring better on an index we developed to generate scores based on standardised photos of each community. This was true in urban and rural communities
2/n The PURE study began 20 years ago - it’s an amazing collaboration that brings together a wealth of data on participants and their communities. We developed an Environmental Profile of a Community’s Health (EPOCH), including photos of built environment journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Background The environment in which people live is known to be important in influencing diet, physical activity, smoking, psychosocial and other risk factors for cardiovascular (CV) disease. However n...
🧵1/n We know the built environment influences physical activity and risk of obesity, but much of the evidence is from urban areas in high income countries. We’ve now analysed data from 530 communities in urban & rural areas in 21 countries across the world. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The built environment can influence human health, but the available evidence is modest and almost entirely from urban communities in high-income count…
Prof Kevin Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip. youtu.be/FPCztlID3Q0
YouTube video by Christina Pagel
I’ve spent most of today in discussions on regulation of AI. Anyone who thinks it will replace doctors is living in fairy land. See also pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39074956/
Can AI substitute a human physician's second opinion? Recently the <i>Journal of Medical Ethics</i> published two contrasting views: Kempt and Nagel advocate for using artificial intelligence (AI) for...
And Rachel Clarke says much the same thing here. For too long senior figures in the NHS have prioritised reputation management over lives www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
NHS ‘senior sources’ blasted the health secretary for admitting the service is broken. I applaud him for telling the truth, says palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke
I get it that some senior figures in n the NHS are upset about recent criticism of its performance. But perhaps they might ask whether they could have spoken out more when it was clear that things were going wrong (or maybe not patronised/ attacked those of us who did) #complacency
Of course lots of health workers do communicate really well - I spoke to many of them on my podcast series Inspiring Doctors Listen wherever you get your podcasts open.spotify.com/show/0I1q3cs...
Podcast · [object Object] · Most doctors speak to the public in individual consultations every day. But communicating about medicine to a wider audience is a different skill set altogether. In this se...
Got round of applause when I said I’d stopped posting on the other place. It seems that Elon Musk isn’t so popular here!