All Resources for 'Community-Based Prevention'

Methamphetamine Increases Risk of Stroke, Study Finds

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Scientific article
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Addiction
Populations
Men
Women
Public Health

The use of methamphetamine, or what is commonly known as ‘speed’, ‘ice’, or ‘meth’, correlates with an increased risk of stroke among young people, according to new research published in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.

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The Brain of Binge Drinkers at Rest

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Scientific article
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Public Health

Background: Previous studies have reported anomalous resting brain activity in the electroencephalogram (EEG) of alcoholics, often reflected as increased power in the beta and theta frequency bands. The effects of binge drinking, the most...

Human rights and youth playbook

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Book
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Prevention
Public Health

Last Friday, we launched the new volume in our series of booklets on human rights, the UNISAL-Lorena. I had the joy of organizing such a primer with Dr. Maria Aparecida Alkimim. A realization of the Lorraine Movement for life, in...

The 2014-2015 Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey (TUS-CPS)

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Book
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Public Health
Statistics

Especially due to its large sample size and incorporation into the CPS survey, the TUS provides a unique opportunity for tracking long-term trends in tobacco use, cessation attempts, and tobacco-related policies; evaluation of tobacco...

A Dermatologist's Ammunition in the War Against Smoking: A Photoaging App

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Scientific article
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Public Health

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This viewpoint reviews the perspectives for dermatology as a specialty to go beyond the substantial impact of smoking on skin disease and leverage the impact of skin changes on a person's self-concept and behavior in the design of...

Opioid Crisis Fast Facts

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News
Themes
Addiction
Public Health

Opioid is abuse prescription pain medication that formulate to replicate of opium.
 

Policy in Action: A Tool for Measuring Alcohol Policy Implementation

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Book
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Policy

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Europe has the highest alcohol consumption and alcohol-attributable disease burden in the world. In 2011, all 53 Member States of the WHO European Region endorsed the European action plan to reduce the harmful use of alcohol 2012...

New National Alcohol Policy launched by Minster of Health

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News
Themes
Populations
Family
Policy

The new National Alcohol Policy for Malawi has been in the making since 2008, a process originally initiated by a group of NGOs. On the 18th of August almost ten years later the Minister of Health, Atupele Muluzi, could launch the final...

Awareness of Standardised Tobacco Packaging among Adults and Young People during the Final Phase of Policy Implementation in Great Britain

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Scientific article
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Policy

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Background: In May 2016, along with the latest European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), standardised packaging legislation was implemented in the UK. During the following 12-month transition period, both new and old types of...

Smoking Cessation and Survival in Lung, Upper Aero-Digestive Tract and Bladder Cancer

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Scientific article
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Public Health

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Background: The aim was to examine the association between smoking cessation and prognosis in smoking-related cancer as it is unclear that cessation reduces mortality.

Methods: In this retrospective cohort study from 1999 to 2013...