Andrea Mazzella
@andmazzella.bsky.social
Public Health Medicine registrar (resident doctor), epidemiologist, migrant, geek in disguise.📍 London | 🗣️ an-DREH-ah | 👤 he/him
🍬🏫School food standards🎒🍔 Govt is proposing an update to the standards of food served in state schools to make them more nutritious and healthier 🥗🍉 If you have any thoughts on this, you can share them via this consultation (today is the last day) consult.education.gov.uk/school-food-...
School Food Standards: updating the legislative framework - Department for Education - Citizen Space
Find and participate in consultations run by the Department for Education
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Fascinating qualitative study on beliefs London parents hold about child weight. Main viewpoints identified, with my thoughts: academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/a...
Parental beliefs and practices around child weight in London, England: insights from qualitative photo-elicitation interviews
AbstractBackground. Childhood overweight and obesity remain global public health concerns, yet caregiver engagement with prevention and support services is
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A landmark moment for #PublicHealth: people born after 2008 will be banned from buying tobacco in the UK – once they turn 18 and forever, even when they will be 30, 40, and older. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed
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Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Trying to analyse seven semi‑structured interviews for my health needs assessment and honestly... why is this taking longer than an entire epi dataset? Never going to look down on qual research ever again!
A question for social epidemiologists. #episky #publichealth As we know, the English Index of Multiple Deprivation is a composite metric, including domains such as education, income, environment, etc. And these are often closely linked. 1/6
If you push hard enough, anything can squeeze into a logistic regression model
Annual epi update on bloodstream infections and C. difficile infections in England. Continuing worrying trend of increasing rates of most of these infections, especially for community-onset cases
Zahin Amin-Chowdhury@acciochoc.bsky.social · 10mo ago🆕 Our Annual Epidemiological Commentary on 6 key HCAIs was published this week - using England national mandatory surveillance data 🦠. #hcai #surveillance #epidemiology Some key highlights ⬇️
People are less likely to believe conspiracy theories when they get clear, simple, and early information from trusted sources. Using tools like “prebunking” and reaching people where they are (like on social media) can help build trust and reduce misinformation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Conspiracy belief and the willful ignorance of information
The idea that conspiracy believers are prone to willful ignorance is widespread, yet many seemingly supporting studies lack designs suited to test thi…
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An interesting piece by @johnlauner.bsky.social in the @bmj.com recently. I know GP trainees who have done this too. Not all our younger doctors are leaving for Australia & NZ. Some are staying here but leaving the NHS. Somehow, the system has gone horribly wrong that this is happening. #MedSky
First day as Public Health Medicine Registrar (=resident) done ✅ Exciting to start!
This podcast episode has some interesting commentary of the "nanny state" critique against public health policies.
Beyond the neglectful state: unpacking the intersection of public health and personal freedom
Public Health Disrupted · Episode
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In its 10 Year Health Plan, the government recommitted to halving the gap in healthy life expectancy (HLE) between the poorest and richest regions. But how? Our new analysis with the ONS points to the underlying factors which any plan will need to take account of. 🧵
"And when the number of years of experience in the workforce were taken into account, master’s holders in any field earned slightly more than those with PhDs." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How many PhDs does the world need? Doctoral graduates vastly outnumber jobs in academia
PhD programmes need to better prepare students for careers outside universities, researchers warn.
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Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
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Cancer Research UK today published a report which highlights changes in cancer survival rates over the last 50 years. Many headlines (like this one from the Guardian) have chosen to report the ‘doubling of cancer survival rates’ since the 1970s. But that's misleading... 1/18
There is a much stronger evidence base to support measles vaccination in all children and COVID vaccination during pregnancy, compared to annual COVID vaccination in healthy children. I think this is important distinction, and we should be cautious about mixing levels of evidence in discussions.
Joined Parkrun and it's great! I don't enjoy running by myself but doing it with 500 other people in a park makes it much more fun
Oh wow. On reflection, shouldn't surprise me – I definitely use Stack Overflow less since I started asking coding questions to LLMs. Not necessarily a good thing...
Anil Dash@anildash.com · last yr.I have a lot of thoughts about this. blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overfl...
At @uhsft.bsky.social, a project to make food on the wards more sustainable showed that small changes, such as more vegetarian and plant-based options, not only improved menu approval ratings but also educed their carbon footprint: ow.ly/IevF50VXHa9
Some personal news: I've accepted a Public Health Medicine specialty training post here in London 🎉 @fphuk.bsky.social I'm so looking forward to starting in August! Sad to leave my team @ukhsa.bsky.social but I should be back soon enough for my health protection rotation!
Specialty Training
This section provides information on all aspects of training in public health including curriculum and supporting information on training.
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OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/
Are you a UK psychiatrist with views to share about self-diagnosis? We’re looking for UK-based psychiatrists who work with young people aged 10–24 and would be available to take part in a 45-minute online interview (cont below) PLEASE SHARE WIDELY 🤩
Men are disproportionately affected by nany diseases, including bloodstream infections, and have shorter life expectancy than women. DHSC is looking for the views of the public and healthcare staff to inform a Men's Health Strategy for England. Have your say: www.gov.uk/government/c...
Men's Health Strategy for England: call for evidence
This call for evidence is seeking the views of the public, as well as health and social care professionals, academics, employers and stakeholder organisations to inform a Men’s Health Strategy for Eng...
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📈 C. difficile infections have been rising in England, both in hospitals and outside – by a third in three years. A new report by the UK Health Security Agency 👇 #episky #idsky
@simonthelwall.bsky.social · last yr.There's a really good technical report on the recent rises in C difficile just published by UKHSA. Until recently, C diff rates were a huge success story. Now we're seeing concerning rises. #hcai #cdiff www.gov.uk/government/p...
Two articles from @ukhsa.bsky.social in @eurosurveillance.org this week 1. Developing surveillance for antibiotic resistance prior to widespread use is important; detect resistance prior to use of ceftazidime - avibactam (unsurprising but important ) www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2... 1/3
The importance of monitoring a new antibiotic: ceftazidime/avibactam usage and resistance experience from England, 2016 to 2020
Background Ceftazidime/avibactam, launched in the United Kingdom (UK) in March 2017, is an antibiotic against multidrug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens. It was selected for the government’s subscrip...
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