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Recently I made a post about the AIDS campaign in France where rather graphic images were used to get the message about safe sex across. New Scientist has two more stories that relate to the ways that people are promoting healthy behaviour or bringing awareness of health issues.
The first story relates to smoking and the [...]

Well, they say that sex sells, so I thought that it was about time that I jumped on that band-wagon. We all know the dangers of unprotected sex, or at least we should do, so how can we get the message across to those who still aren’t paying attention? In the Health module [...]

An interesting article over at psychcentral has identified a study looking into the sexual behaviour of adolescents and what variables effect is.
“… A study conducted in August 2006 examined longitudinal data from a survey of 5,401 Scottish teenagers. The researchers led by Daniel Wight of the Medical Research Council, Social and Public Health Sciences Unit [...]

Recently there has been a flurry of articles on addiction, the reasons why we become addicted and why do we continue to abuse these substances; be it alcohol, gambling or even love (there was a very interesting article about being addicted to love by Prof Mark Griffiths in a recent Psychology Review – and on [...]

When teaching psychology and health I have found that a top evaluation issue that students can really get their teeth into and discuss well in part B essays is the issue of correlation and causality (or more accurately lack of causality).
Because of the practical and ethical problems of studying health and illness this tricky little [...]

Pain and suffering aren’t exactly everybody’s cup of tea, but we do study pain as part of the A2 health course. Some of the more interesting topics in pain are surrounding peoples perceptions of pain such as how some people perform extraordinary acts (such as lying on a bed of nails or sitting through one [...]

In the health module when talking about adherence and positive health behaviour one example that we like to use is breast and testicular self examination. It’s always a great discussion starter about how, why and can we improve peoples behaviour and encourage self-examination. Here are a few videos from around the web which [...]