All Resources for 'Community-Based Prevention'

Funcionamiento familiar e intentos de suicidio en un hospital público de Argentina

Publication Date
Format
Scientific article
Themes
Prevention
Populations
Family
Women
Mental Health

Resumen

Objetivo

Analizar los componentes funcionales de la dinámica familiar y factores asociados al intento de suicidio en pacientes asistidos en un hospital público de Argentina en el año 2015.

Métodos

Se realizó un estudio...

Taking a New Line on Drugs

Format
Book
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Psychoactive Substances
Public Health
Policy

This report, ‘Taking a New Line on Drugs’, comes at a timely moment for drugs strategy both in the UK and across the world. The special session of the United Nations General Assembly on the world drug problem, which took place in New York...

Alcohol and Mental Health: Policy and Practice in England

Publication Date
Format
Book
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Mental Health
Policy
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Many people who misuse alcohol also have a mental health difficulty, and many people with mental health problems also misuse alcohol. Yet few get effective help from either alcohol or mental health services. National...

Measuring the Burden of Opioid-Related Mortality in Ontario, Canada

Publication Date
Format
Scientific article
Themes
Addiction
Public Health

Opioid overdose is a leading public health problem across Canada that continues to evolve, particularly as clandestinely-produced opioids enter the market (Public Health Agency of Canada, 2017). In 2014, we published a study that found that...

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Children of Alcoholics: A Manifesto For Change

Format
Book
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Public Health

Executive Summary

One in five children in the UK lives with a parent who drinks too much – that’s over 2.5 million children. They are Britain’s innocent victims of drink.

Hard-drinking parents hurt their children for life. Compared to...

E‐Cigarettes, Vaping and Performativity in the Context of Tobacco Denormalisation

Publication Date
Format
Scientific article
Themes
Public Health

Abstract

E‐cigarettes are devices through which a nicotine solution is ‘vapourised’ and inhaled by the user. Unlike cigarettes, the process involves no tobacco combustion. However, the inhalation and exhalation of vapour is reminiscent of...

Evaluation of the national strategy to address the problem of drugs in Uruguay

Format
Book
Themes
Policy
Public Health

This document presents the findings of the external evaluation of the national strategy for drug (END) developed by a team from the Faculty of social sciences of the University of the Republic in the last quarter of 2014. The document is...

Smoke-Free Rules in Homes and Cars among Smokers and Nonsmokers in Minnesota

Publication Date
Format
Scientific article
Themes
Public Health

Abstract

We examined prevalence and predictors of comprehensive smoke-free household rules (ie, smoke-free homes and cars) among smokers and nonsmokers in Minnesota. Data came from the 2014 Minnesota Adult Tobacco Survey; weighted analyses...