All Resources for 'Public Health'

Exposure to Secondhand Smoke Among Nonsmokers

Publication Date
Format
Scientific article
Themes
Public Health

Summary

What is already known about this topic?

Exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke can cause sudden infant death syndrome, respiratory infections, ear infections, and asthma attacks in infants and children, and coronary heart disease...

Cobertura jornalística sobre drogas: distorções e potencialidades na prevenção

Publication Date
Format
Book
Themes
Prevention
Psychoactive Substances
Populations
Family
Capítulo 11 do Livro: Ações integradas sobre drogas: prevenção, abordagens e políticas públicas. Ed. UFJF, 2013.

The content discussed highlights the influence of the media in the process of health promotion related to alcohol and other...

Improving Care to Prevent Suicide among People with Serious Mental Illness

Publication Date
Format
Book
Themes
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...

Alcohol Policy Scoring

Publication Date
Format
Book
Themes
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.

Abstract

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

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

Format
News
Themes
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

Publication Date
Format
Scientific article
Themes
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

Format
Book
Themes
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

Publication Date
Format
Book
Themes
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...

Share the Knowledge: ISSUP members can post in the Knowledge Share – Sign in or become a member