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National Academy of Medicine Releases New Special Publication Guide
September 21, 2017
Halting the opioid epidemic requires aggressive action across multiple dimensions, including informed, active, and determined front-line leadership from health clinicians working in every setting throughout the nation...
The Risk of Hypertension and Other Chronic Diseases: Comparing Smokeless Tobacco with Smoking
Background: In the past, studies have compared smokeless tobacco and non-tobacco users for the risk of various chronic diseases. The differences in the risk of chronic diseases between smokeless tobacco user and smokers have not been...
Editorial: Evidence-Based Public Health: Why, What and How
INTRODUCTION
In 2009, Brownson et al. (1) noted the growing consensus that evidence-based public health (EBPH) decision-making is influenced by three factors—namely, (1) best available evidence, (2) resources, and (3) population needs...
کلاس های خطر سیندمیک و مشکلات مصرف مواد در میان بزرگسالان در مناطق پر خطر شهری
مشکلات مصرف مواد تمایل به همکاری با عوامل خطر که به خصوص در جوامع شهری با نرخ بالای فقر وجود دارد. مطالعه حاضر بر روی نظریه سیندیمیک به منظور درک پروفایل خطر و انعطاف پذیری و ارتباط آنها با مشکلات مصرف مواد در یک جمعیت در معرض خطر برای...
Methamphetamine Increases Risk of Stroke, Study Finds
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.
...The Brain of Binge Drinkers at Rest
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...
Cartilha de Direitos Humanos e Juventude
Na última sexta-feira, lançamos o novo volume da nossa série de Cartilhas de Direitos Humanos, no UNISAL - Lorena. Tive a alegria de organizar a referida Cartilha com a Dra. Maria Aparecida Alkimim. Uma realização do Movimento Lorena pela...
مکمل استفاده از دخانیات در سال های 2014 تا 2015 به بررسی جمعیت فعلی (TUS-CPS)
به خصوص با توجه به اندازه نمونه بزرگ و ترکیب آن را به بررسی CPS، TUS فراهم می کند یک فرصت منحصر به فرد برای ردیابی روند بلند مدت در استفاده از دخانیات، تلاش برای متوقف کردن، و سیاست های مربوط به دخانیات؛ ارزیابی برنامه های کنترل دخانیات /...
A Dermatologist's Ammunition in the War Against Smoking: A Photoaging App
ABSTRACT
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
Opioid is abuse prescription pain medication that formulate to replicate of opium.
Type and Context of Alcohol-Related Injury among Patients Presenting to Emergency Departments in a Caribbean Country
Abstract
There is an association between alcohol consumption and injuries in Latin America and the Caribbean. This cross-sectional study explores the socio-contextual factors of alcohol-related injuries in Trinidad and Tobago. Data on...
Smoking Cessation and Survival in Lung, Upper Aero-Digestive Tract and Bladder Cancer
ABSTRACT
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...
A Socioecological Approach to Addressing Tobacco-Related Health Disparities
Tobacco use remains the nation’s leading cause of preventable premature death, including death from cancer, and progress in reducing tobacco use and related disease and death has not been equally distributed across population groups. This...
داروهای مصنوعی کاتینون و طراح کانابیناید خطر عمده ای برای سلامت عمومی
به عنوان بخشی از استفاده فزاینده در سراسر جهان از داروهای طراح، استفاده اخیر از ترکیب های حاوی کاتینون ها و کانابینویدهای مصنوعی به ویژه غالب است. در اینجا، ما به بررسی ادبیات فعلی در مورد همه گیری شناسی، اثرات زیستی رفتاری، و تشخیص این...
Drug Matrix Cell A1: Interventions - Ways to Reduce the Harm
Initiates a fortnightly course on the evidence base for harm reduction and treatment in relation to illegal drugs. Comprehensively updated, the cell explores key research on interventions to reduce the harms to the user as a result of their...
Avoidable Emergency Department Visits: A Starting Point
Abstract
Objective
To better characterize and understand the nature of a very conservative definition of ‘avoidable’ emergency department (ED) visits in the United States to provide policy-makers insight into what interventions can target...
عوامل استرس زا محیطی، عوامل اقتصادی اجتماعی و مشکلات مرتبط با الکل در دانشجویان کالج ارجنتاین
آبستره:
مقدمه: ارتباط مصرف الکل، ویژگی های فردی و مشکلات مربوط به الکل با توجه به ویژگی های زیست محیطی در جمعیت های خاص متفاوت است.
هدف: بررسی وجود ساختار سلسله مراتبی در ارتباط بین عوامل استرس زا محیطی، عوامل اجتماعی و اقتصادی فردی، مصرف...
مرگ و میر ناشی از مصرف بیش از حد فنتانیل و آن
خلاصه
چه چیزی در حال حاضر در مورد این موضوع شناخته شده است؟
فنتانیل که به طور غیرقانونی تولید شده است، به یک کمک کننده قابل توجه برای مرگ و میر ناشی از مصرف بیش از حد غیر عمدی در ایالات متحده تبدیل شده است.
چه چیزی توسط این گزارش اضافه...
Trends in Deaths Involving Heroin and Synthetic Opioids Excluding Methadone, and Law Enforcement Drug Product Reports
Summary
What is already known about this topic?
Opioid overdose deaths in the United States have been increasing since 1999, initially driven by prescription opioid misuse and more recently by heroin and other illicit opioid use.
What is...