Patrick Swain

Sep 20, 2024 | ilcuk.org.uk | Patrick Swain

Join ILC for the launch of the Mental health matters report. As part of this project, ILC has generated a debate among key policy and health stakeholders on how we can forge stronger policies to address and reduce the impact of serious mental health conditions across the life course. The final report includes details of these policy recommendations that will be discussed during a one-hour launch webinar. A full agenda and speakers will be confirmed soon.

Sep 9, 2024 | pittnews.com | Kyra McCague |Patrick Swain

Scattered around Pittsburgh, countless steps stretch across the city’s slopes. Hundreds of staircases snake up and down the hills and ravines — many weathered and eroded, hidden amongst the trees, waiting to be discovered. Laura Zurowski, co-author of the new book “City Steps of Pittsburgh,” said these stairs tell the story of Pittsburgh in the past and present. “The city steps are just another part of that infrastructure to move people around,” Zurowski said.

Aug 17, 2024 | physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Patrick Swain |Aerospace Medicine |Nick Caplan |Luke Hughes

1 INTRODUCTION Astronauts experience a wide range of adaptations upon entering the spaceflight environment, including musculoskeletal and cardiovascular deconditioning, impaired sensorimotor performance, orthostatic intolerance, altered immune response and spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome (Crucian et al., 2018; Jirak et al., 2022; Lee et al., 2020; Qaisar et al., 2020; Stavnichuk et al., 2020; Vernice et al., 2020).

Aug 16, 2024 | ilcuk.org.uk | Patrick Swain

In this blog, Patrick Swain compares how well countries and territories performed at the Paris 2024 Olympics and a hypothetical “Healthy Ageing Olympics” based on findings from the ILC’s Going for gold project.

Jul 30, 2024 | ilcuk.org.uk | Patrick Swain

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) means good quality health services must be available to all, when and where they are needed, without the need to incur financial hardship. UHC is fundamental to improving health outcomes, particularly for largely preventable diseases, and can also contribute to social inclusion, equality, ending poverty, economic growth, and human dignity. Across the globe, there has been vast progress over the last two decades.