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Predictors of Educational Attainment in a Disadvantaged French-Canadian Sample

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Scientific article
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Prevention
Populations
Family
Partner Organisation

Marie-Helene Veronneau, Lisa Serbin, Kathleen Kennedy-Turner, Dale M. Stack, Alex Schwartzman, Jane Ledingham

Introduction: Educational attainment predicts health and well-being throughout the lifespan. Although educational attainment is...

Is Young Adolescents’ Self-Esteem Predicted by Peer Acceptance? A Gender Perspective

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Scientific article
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Prevention
Populations
Women
Partner Organisation

Olivier Gaudet, Justin Vollet, Marie-Helene Veronneau, Thomas Kindermann, Cécile Mathys

Introduction: Self-esteem influences youth’s mental and physical health (Tzesniewski et al., 2006) and is central to adolescent development. During...

Risks and Opportunities of Growing Up as Refugees

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Scientific article
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Prevention
Populations
Family
Indigenous Populations, Older Adults and Refugees.
Refugees
Partner Organisation

Ha Yeon Kim, Lindsay Brown

Introduction: The world currently faces the largest refugee crisis since WWII[1]. Lebanon alone, a nation of approximately 4 million citizens, is sheltering over 1 million registered Syrian refugees. The...

Coalition Development for Drug Prevention in Mexico

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Scientific article
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Prevention
Partner Organisation

Louis D Brown, Rebecca Wells, Alexia A. Wilson, Sarah Meyer Chilenski

Introduction: Illegal drug use rose 87% from 2002 to 2011 in Mexico. To help address this problem, 19 substance use prevention coalitions were organized across Mexico...

Most-Read Knowledge Share Articles of 2017

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News
Themes
Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Public Health
Statistics
Mental Health
Policy
Here is a selection of the most-read Knowledge Share articles of 2017. These are the articles that captivated our members most.

Generating Revenue by Raising Tobacco Taxes in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Scientific article
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Policy
Public Health

Abstract

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine if raising tobacco taxes in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region will generate extra tax revenue, even at outer edges of the sensitivity analysis, with relatively...