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Tag: Public Health

Interview & Opinion

15 March 2023

“Go into the forest, come out healthier”

Interview: Ingrid Ladner

For many years, environmental physician Daniela Haluza has been making every effort to link health issues to environmental issues. In this interview, she talks about new forest research insights, biodiversity in city parks and insects on the windshield. Continue reading ““Go into the forest, come out healthier””

Projects

13 February 2023

Biodiversity as a barrier

Antibiotic resistance is an even more urgent and wide-spread problem than is commonly suspected, since resistant germs circulate between humans and the environment, and they are found everywhere. European research groups with Austrian involvement are now investigating how resistance genes spread in rivers and soils. Initial results confirm their hypothesis: the healthier the natural environment, […] Continue reading “Biodiversity as a barrier”
Young man walking along the street with rainbow flag on his back.

Projects

15 February 2021

Videos as wake-up call for suicidal young people

The media can make an important contribution to the prevention of suicide. That much has been confirmed by a recent study by suicide researcher Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, who has explored how the videos of the “It Gets Better” project, a prevention campaign first launched in the USA, affect adolescents who belong to a sexual minority and […] Continue reading “Videos as wake-up call for suicidal young people”

Portrait

29 June 2020

Social distancing under the Habsburg Empire

By Margit Schwarz-Stiglbauer

In the course of its history, Europe experienced many epidemics before Corona. For centuries, states have sought to contain them through active countermeasures. The Graz-based historian Christian Promitzer explored how scourges such as plague and cholera were combatted under the Habsburg Empire in the 19th century, finding some parallels with today. Continue reading “Social distancing under the Habsburg Empire”

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