All Resources for 'Public Health'

Exposure to Secondhand Smoke and Arrhythmogenic Cardiac Alternans in a Mouse Model

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Scientific article
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Public Health

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Background:

Epidemiological evidence suggests that a majority of deaths attributed to secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure are cardiovascular related. However, to our knowledge, the impact of SHS on cardiac electrophysiology, Ca2+Ca2+...

Alcohol Policy Scoring

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Book
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Policy
Prevention

Assessing the level of implementation of the WHO Global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol in the Region of the Americas.

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[FOREWORD]. Monitoring progress is a key component whenever planning and committing to implement...

Improving Care to Prevent Suicide among People with Serious Mental Illness

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Book
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Mental Health
Prevention

On September 11–12, 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop in Washington, DC, to discuss what is known, what is currently being done, and what needs to be done to identify and reduce suicide risk...

Universal Prevention Curriculum (UPC) Preparation Workshop in Islamabad, Pakistan

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News
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Prevention
Media-Based
School-Based
Psychoactive Substances
Theories and Science

The Ministry of Narcotics Control (MNC) – Government of Pakistan in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) organized a preparation workshop on the Universal Prevention Curriculum (UPC) on psychoactive and...

Efeitos da permanência na Educação Infantil sobre indicadores de desempenho, habilidades sociais, comportamento e estresse

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Scientific article
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Prevention
School-Based
Populations
Family

Effects of early childhood education attendance on achievement, social skills, behaviour, and stress
Effects of early childhood education attendance on achievement, social skills, behaviour, and stress

Marta Regina Gonçalves CORREIA-ZANINI 1 0000-0003-4776-8917
Edna Maria MARTURANO 2 0000-0002-1545-0093
Anne Marie Germaine Victorine...

m-Health Applications for Responding to Drug Use and Associated Harms

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Book
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Public Health
Partner Organisation

Digital healthcare, also known as e-health, refers to tools and services that use information and communication technology to improve the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, monitoring and management of health. 

Mobile health, or m-health...

Rights, Respect and Recovery: Scotland's Alcohol and Drug Treatment Strategy

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Book
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Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Recovery Support
Addiction
Populations
Family
Public Health
Mental Health
Policy
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion

The Scottish Government has released the new Alcohol and Drugs Strategy, which aims to improve health by preventing and reducing alcohol and drug use, harm and related deaths. There were a record 934 drugs-related deaths in Scotland in 2017...