All Resources for 'Public Health'

Alcoholic Drinks and the Risk of Cancer

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Book
Themes
Public Health
Infectious Diseases

Source: World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research.

Continuous Update Project Expert Report 2018. Alcoholic Drinks and the Risk of Cancer. Available at dietandcancerreport.org

Executive summary

Background and...

Perceived Importance of Substance Use Prevention in Juvenile Justice: A Multi-Level Analysis

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Scientific article
Themes
Prevention
Law
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion

Abstract

Background

Youth under juvenile justice (JJ) supervision are at high-risk of adverse outcomes from substance use, making prevention important. Few studies have examined prevention-related attitudes of JJ employees, yet such...

Temporal Associations of Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption with Cancer Mortality

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Scientific article
Themes
Populations
Men
Women
Public Health

Key Points

Question: Are changes in population-level alcohol and tobacco consumption associated with changes in overall cancer mortality?

Findings: In this population-based cohort study, temporal associations of alcohol and tobacco...

National Report on the Drug Situation in Lebanon

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Format
Book
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Public Health
Statistics
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion
The document National Report on Drug Situation in Lebanon offers an insight into the coordinated approach taken by the Department of Public Health, academic stakeholders and other ministerial departments in reducing the prevalence and impact of substance use disorders in Lebanon.