All Resources for 'Public Health'

Exposure to Secondhand Smoke and Arrhythmogenic Cardiac Alternans in a Mouse Model

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Scientific article
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Public Health

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Background:

Epidemiological evidence suggests that a majority of deaths attributed to secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure are cardiovascular related. However, to our knowledge, the impact of SHS on cardiac electrophysiology, Ca2+Ca2+...

Cobertura jornalística sobre drogas: distorções e potencialidades na prevenção

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Book
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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...

Exposure to Secondhand Smoke Among Nonsmokers

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Scientific article
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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...

Improving Care to Prevent Suicide among People with Serious Mental Illness

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Book
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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

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Book
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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.

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

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

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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

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Scientific article
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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

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Book
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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...