Jan 09
In a BBC Radio Kent Breakfast interview today, CHSS Director and Canterbury resident Stephen Peckham supported action to reduce traffic congestion and improve air quality in the city of Canterbury. Air quality breaches directives, and there are very high levels of traffic congestion for a small city. There are an estimated 40,000+ premature deaths across …
Nov 11
CHSS Director in Vienna on ‘Achieving Health in Fragmented Systems’ CHSS Director Stephen Peckham addressed an audience of European Public Health specialists in Vienna earlier today. His session, ‘Achieving Health in Fragmented Systems’ examined existing systems and the complex problems and interconnected relationships between public health problems like obesity and cardiovascular disease, and environmental issues such …
Aug 19
The public health function in England post 2013 – shaken AND stirred? The major health and social care reforms encompassed within the Health and Social Care Act (2012) profoundly changed the way the public health function is organised and delivered in England. Our research project – PHOENIX – examined those changes over a three-year period, …
Apr 15
Stephen Peckham, Director and Professor of Health Policy at the Centre for Health Services Studies was featured in The Guardian on-line, Wednesday 13 April 2016 in an article discussing the pros and cons of water fluoridation. The article deals with the response to his paper ‘Water Fluoridation: A Critical Review of the Physiological Effects of …
Jan 15
Are you struggling to get an NHS Dentist in Kent? Kent’s Senior Dental Contracts Manager has advised BBC Radio Kent that if you live in West Kent you may struggle to get an NHS Dentist close to where you live. On the breakfast show on 06 January, Professor Stephen Peckham, Director and Professor of Health …
Jan 11
Professor of Health Policy Stephen Peckham recently led research investigating a possible link between fluoride in drinking water and underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism). A feature article in Boxing Day’s Guardian highlighted Stephen’s research, outlining his – and other experts’ – call for a moratorium on fluoridation pending more robust evidence around its safety as well as …
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