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João Martins

@drjmartins

Public health, politics et al. 🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧

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A bird's eye view of the madness that the housing market in Lisbon (and Portugal more widely) has become.

A cautionary tale of what happens when you value foreign investment over everything else, including your own population.
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Why do people keep referring to the ULEZ as a ‘green policy’?

I get that it may lead to a GHG reduction but it is primarily a public health measure to tackle air pollution, responsible for thousands of premature deaths & countless health problems

Source: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

Why do people keep referring to the ULEZ as a ‘green policy’? I get that it may lead to a GHG reduction but it is primarily a public health measure to tackle air pollution, responsible for thousands of premature deaths & countless health problems Source: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
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A truly inspirational interview w/ ⁦greg fell FFPH & ⁦Nason Maani, beautifully describing the reality of local

I’ll take home the importance of framing health as a systemic rather than individual issue as the ‘silver bullet’ in PH podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mon…

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Chuffed that my motion on drug decriminalisation has been accepted as The BMA PHM policy 🙌

Deterrence is the wrong answer to a very real problem which destroys lives and communities.

Decriminalising drug possession needs to be part of a harm reduction strategy to change this

Chuffed that my motion on drug decriminalisation has been accepted as @TheBMA PHM policy 🙌 Deterrence is the wrong answer to a very real problem which destroys lives and communities. Decriminalising drug possession needs to be part of a harm reduction strategy to change this
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When your problem looks like this, an injection is never going to be the solution

Source: Foresight obesity report, 2007

When your problem looks like this, an injection is never going to be the solution Source: Foresight obesity report, 2007
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