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How Can We Demonstrate the Public Value of Evidence-Based Policy Making when Government Ministers Declare that the People ‘Have Had Enough of Experts’?
Abstract
Recent political campaigns on both sides of the Atlantic have led some to argue that we live in the age of ‘post-factual’ or ‘post-truth’ politics, suggesting evidence has a limited role in debate and public policy. How can we...
Tobacco Industry Strategies Undermine Government Tax Policy: Evidence from Commercial Data
Abstract
Objective: Taxation equitably reduces smoking, the leading cause of health inequalities. The tobacco industry (TI) can, however, undermine the public health gains realised from tobacco taxation through its pricing strategies. This...
Hotel Smoking Policies and Their Implementation
Abstract
Background
Most states in the U.S. permit hotels to allow smoking in some guest rooms, and only five (Indiana, Michigan, North Dakota, Vermont, and Wisconsin) require that all hotel and motel rooms be 100% smoke-free (State and...
Delinquency and Substance Misuse Among US Teens See Significant Decline
12- to 17-year-olds in the US are now far less likely to misuse alcohol, nicotine and illegal drugs. The same age group is also less prone to delinquent behaviours, such as stealing and fighting than the generation before. This is according...
Regresif atau Progresif? Efek Pajak Tembakau di Ukraina
ABSTRAK
Pajak tembakau biasanya dianggap regresif karena individu termiskin mengalokasikan bagian yang lebih besar dari anggaran mereka untuk pembelian produk terkait tembakau. Namun, karena pajak ini juga mencegah penggunaan tembakau...
Ending the Opioid Crisis: A Practical Guide for State Policymakers
BACKGROUND
Although the opioid epidemic is a national issue, states shoulder the majority of the financial and social burden caused by addiction. Fortunately, there are many actions that states can take to effectively address the opioid...
Drug Policy Evaluation
Drug Policy Evaluation: A Seven-Step Guide to Support the Commissioning and Managing of Evaluations is a new resource from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). The document addresses the key issues...
Statistik Perawatan Obat dan Alkohol
Ringkasan Eksekutif
Data yang dikumpulkan di lembaga perawatan obat memainkan peran penting dalam menginformasikan pembuat kebijakan. Data semacam itu sering mewakili satu-satunya informasi yang dikumpulkan secara teratur dan konsisten...
New National Alcohol Policy launched by Minster of Health
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...
Policy in Action: A Tool for Measuring Alcohol Policy Implementation
ABSTRACT
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...
Kesadaran akan Kemasan Tembakau Standar di kalangan Orang Dewasa dan Kaum Muda selama Fase Akhir Implementasi Kebijakan di Inggris Raya
Abstrak
Latar Belakang: Pada Mei 2016, bersama dengan European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) terbaru, undang-undang pengemasan standar diterapkan di Inggris. Selama masa transisi 12 bulan berikutnya, jenis kemasan baru dan lama...
Pubs Quizzed: Apa Yang Dipikirkan Pemungut Cukai tentang Kebijakan, Kesehatan Masyarakat, dan Perdagangan yang Berubah
Poin-poin penting
- Ada kesamaan yang signifikan antara badan kesehatan masyarakat dan pemungut cukai, dan ruang lingkup untuk mengembangkan kebijakan yang disetujui oleh kedua kelompok
- Banyak pemungut cukai sangat prihatin dengan...
Barriers to Retention in Methadone Maintenance Therapy among People who Inject Drugs in Bangkok
Abstract
Background
Methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) is a mainstay for treating opioid use disorder and preventing and managing HIV among people who inject drugs (PWID). While previous research suggested low dosing of methadone and...
Energy Drinks, Drug Use and the Developing Brain
New research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has found that university students who regularly consume energy drinks are more likely to develop alcohol use disorders later in life. The same students are also at greater...
Kunjungan Unit Gawat Darurat yang Dapat Dihindari: Titik Awal
Abstrak
Obyektif
Untuk lebih mengkarakterisasi dan memahami sifat definisi yang sangat konservatif dari kunjungan departemen darurat (ED) yang 'dapat dihindari' di Amerika Serikat untuk memberikan wawasan kepada pembuat kebijakan tentang...
Masalah Serius: Gas Tertawa Mendorong Peninjauan Undang-Undang Zat Psikoaktif Inggris
Diperkenalkan pada tahun 2016, The Psychoactive Substances Act dirancang untuk menangani masuknya obat-obatan baru yang sering diberi label 'tertinggi hukum'.
Undang-undang melarang zat apa pun yang "dengan merangsang atau menekan sistem...
Changing Patterns of Substance Misuse in Adult Prisons and Service Responses
Inspection findings were supplemented by fieldwork in eight prisons in 2014 to generate an overall picture of drug use and responses to it in prisons in England and Wales. In the face of rapidly changing and varied drug use patterns, policy...
The Licensing Act (2003): Its Uses and Abuses 10 Years on
Seen as excluding health concerns and requiring an individualistic and ‘premises by premises’ approach, interviews with stakeholders and a revisiting of the 2003 Licensing Act for England and Wales suggest it could nevertheless be used to...
Online Drinking Interventions Shown to be Effective for Armed Service Personnel
Almost two thirds of men in the UK Armed Forces are considered to drink harmful amounts of alcohol.
This is compared with around one third of the average population.
According to a new study published in the Journal of the Royal Army...
Standar Pengetahuan untuk Ilmu Pencegahan
Diterbitkan oleh Society for Prevention Research pada tahun 2011, Standards of Knowledge for the Science of Prevention adalah dokumen penting bagi mereka yang bekerja dalam pencegahan penggunaan zat.
Dengan tujuan memprofesionalkan bidang...
