All Resources for 'Public Health'

Increased Alcohol Advertisement Regulation in Kenya

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News
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Policy
Prevention
Public Health

One of the key recommendations to reduce alcohol related harm is for countries to introduce policies that regulate how companies advertise their alcohol products. 

This measure, along with adjustments in alcohol taxation, is a measure that...

Providing Youth Substance Use Prevention During an Epidemic: Free Webinar

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Video and audio recordings
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Prevention

Webinar Objectives:

  1. Explore the protocol and options to provide single-session Prevention Plus Wellness programs online.
  2. Review the protocol and options to provide Prevention Plus Wellness programs by telephone.
  3. Examine the protocol...

Providing Prevention Plus Wellness Programs During an Epidemic

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Book
Themes
Prevention

The following is a list of protocols for providing the unique single-session evidence-based Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) programs via distance-learning in the event of an epidemic such as the novel coronavirus, poor weather conditions...

Alcohol-free Childhood: Investigation by the Children’s Parliament

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News
Themes
Prevention
Public Health

Alcohol has a constant presence in everyday lives. 

It is important that all practitioners, professionals, and policymakers are aware of this presence and the impact it has on different members of society.

One way to gather this...

Methodologies Mini-Course: Mobile Health Tobacco Interventions Among Low-Income Smokers

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Format
Website
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Prevention

In this SRNT-U Methodologies Mini-Course, you'll hear about Dr. Monica Webb Hooper's work with the use of mHealth for smoking cessation among low income African Americans. You'll learn about:

  • some key health disparities issues that serve...

Health Matters: Smoking and Mental Health

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Website
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Data
Mental Health
Public Health

It is well documented that people with severe mental health issues are more likely to smoke compared to the general population. Smoking reduces physical wellbeing and is a key modifiable risk factor for health inequality.

Despite this...

EUSPR 2020 Call for Abstracts

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News
Themes
Prevention

EUSPR 2020 is being held in Lisbon, Portugal (at EMCDDA) on 8th and 9th October 2020, with workshops and project meetings scheduled for the pre-conference day, October 7th.

The theme this year is ‘Make prevention science relevant for all...

ASAP Training Project

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News
Themes
Policy
Prevention
Public Health

For a number of years, different measures have been taken in Europe to improve the quality of drug prevention through developing and implementing quality standards, training sessions and analysis of drug prevention systems.

Based on the...