Determinants of health. A healthy lifestyle could prevent many chronic diseases. But lifestyle – like health in general – varies considerably throughout our society. The boundaries between healthy and unhealthy often parallel those of social...
Six questions for Professor Thomas Zeltner. As Director of Switzerland's Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) from 1991 to 2009, Thomas Zeltner helped shape the Swiss healthcare system and international health policy for many years. Today, he is President of the Science et...
Editorial Pascal Strupler. Large numbers of Italians have migrated to Switzerland in the last hundred years. Most of them have earned their living the hard way, doing physically challenging work on building sites, in hotels or big factories. Their children have...
Physical activity in the workplace. On average, employees spend 60% of their day in the workplace, many of them doing sedentary work. As a result, over 50% of the working population do not get enough exercise, their performance declines and they are more likely to fall...
Smoking and society. Smoking was still regarded as absolutely normal just a few decades ago. In fact, it was not only accepted, it was positively celebrated, as a "torch of freedom". Nowadays, the wind of freedom is blowing from another direction: for...