All Resources for 'Community-Based Prevention'

The World Drug PERCEPTION Problem: Countering Prejudices about People Who Use Drugs

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Book
Themes
Policy

This new report focuses on how current perceptions of drugs and people that use them has led to an unrealistic and stigmatising, rather than pragmatic and evidence-based approach to drug policy.

The report aims to analyse the most common...

Evaluation of an Online Parenting Programme Based on ‘the Little Parent Handbook’

Format
Scientific article
Themes
Prevention
Populations
Family
Theories and Science
Partner Organisation

Margiad Elen Williams, Dawn Adele Owen

Introduction: Whilst there are evidence based services for parents of children with identified behaviour problems, the demands on parents have increased and now many parents are seeking advice on...

Psychological Distress, Family Functioning and Use of Psychoactive Substances in Administrative Workers of an Institution of Higher Education in Nicaragua

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Scientific article
Themes
Prevention
Psychoactive Substances
Populations
Family
Women
Partner Organisation

Alinka Patricia Avendaño Balladares

Introduction: Professionals in the field of mental health and addictions try to identify situations that cause psychoactive substances use in the population, especially the working population, due to...

The Intersectoriality in the Implementation of Public Policy for Drug Prevention

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Scientific article
Themes
Prevention
Populations
Family
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion
Partner Organisation

Lílian Patrícia Silva de Souza, Eliana Berger, Edileuza Monteiro, Francisco Bastos

The Public Ministry of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, has requested strategies in prevention actions for the use/misuse of drugs from the National...

The Role of Health Literacy in Quitting Tobacco in Indonesia

Format
Scientific article
Themes
Prevention
Populations
Men
Partner Organisation

Nicole Johnson, Sri Handayani, John Parrish-Sprowl

Introduction: Within the past few years, Indonesia Ministry of Health and government have begun to push toward more anti-tobacco initiatives by sponsoring mass media campaigns and...

PROSPER Community-University Partnership Delivery System Effects on Substance Misuse

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Format
Scientific article
Themes
Prevention
Populations
Family

Evaluated prevention programmes are typically implemented by research teams, raising questions over real-world applicability, but a groundbreaking US trial is said to have produced a ‘robust’ demonstration of the potential of a system in...

Exposure to Tobacco Secondhand Smoke and Its Associated Factors among Non-Smoking Adults in Smoking-Restricted and Non-Restricted Areas

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Format
Scientific article
Themes
Public Health
Law Enforcement

Abstract

Objectives: Secondhand smoke (SHS) has been associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Therefore, the aims of the paper are to assess SHS exposure among non-smoking adults in Malaysia attending various smoking-restricted...

Association of Occasional Smoking with Total Mortality in the Population-Based Tromsø Study

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Format
Scientific article
Themes
Populations
Men
Women
Public Health

Abstract

Objectives: There is a shift in the smoking population from daily smokers to light or occasional smokers. The knowledge about possible adverse health effects of this new smoking pattern is limited. We investigated smoking habits...

Socioeconomic Disparities in Smoking Behavior and Early Smoking Initiation among Men in Malawi

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Format
Scientific article
Themes
Prevention
Populations
Men

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Background:

Tobacco smoking is a growing concern for health care systems as it is projected to become the leading cause of death in the developing world. Knowledge of how smoking behavior differs across socioeconomic groups is...