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...
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In the United States, the prevalence of adverse health conditions caused by tobacco use is particularly high among veterans; however, data on use of tobacco products other than...
Preventive guidelines are integrated by six booklets of work, descriptive letters and procedures, whose activities and strategies are aimed at developing skills and specific skills in each age group.
This new report focuses on how current perceptions of drugs and people that use them has led to an unrealistic and stigmatising, rather than pragmatic and evidence-based approach to drug policy.
The report aims to analyse the most common...
Alcohol use, particularly binge drinking (BD), is a major public health concern among adolescents. Recent national data show that the gender gap in alcohol use is lessening, and BD among girls is rising. Considering the increase in BD among...
Rainier Masa, Gina Chowa
Introduction: The intersection of poverty and HIV/AIDS creates a cycle, with poverty increasing risk to HIV exposure and infection, and HIV/AIDS in turn heightening vulnerability to poverty. Further, economic...
Kristin Martinsen, Simon-Peter Neumer, Solveig I Holen, Anne Mari Sund, Joshua Patras, Lene-Mari Rasmussen, Frode Adolfsen, Mona Elisabeth Løvaas, Marit Loetveit Pedersen, Trine Waaktaar
Introduction: Anxiety and depression are common...
Jo Holliday, Thomas Littlejohns, Ligia Adamska, Cathie Sudlow, Nicola Doherty, Naomi Allen
Introduction: UK Biobank was created as an open-access resource for the investigation of the genetic, environmental and lifestyle determinants of...
Luise Adametz, Felicitas Richter, Julia Mühleck, Katharina Wick, Bernhard Strauß, Uwe Berger
Disordered eating and partial eating disorder (ED) syndromes are widespread in childhood and adolescence. They are associated with decreased...
Margiad Elen Williams, Dawn Adele Owen
Introduction: Whilst there are evidence based services for parents of children with identified behaviour problems, the demands on parents have increased and now many parents are seeking advice on...
Carmen Orte, Lluís Ballester, Joan Amer, Marga Vives, Maria Antònia Gomila, Rosario Pozo, Belén Pascual, Karol L. Kumpfer
Introduction: The Family Competence Program (FCP) for 12 to 16-year-old teenagers is the Spanish adaptation of the...
Terje Gunnar Ogden, Kristine Amlund Hagen
Parent Management Training- the Oregon model (PMTO) was introduced as a treatment alternative to families in both child welfare services and child psychiatric out-patient clinics in Norway, in...
Maria Luisa Correa, Daniela Castillo, Yannine Estrada, Marcelo Sánchez, Guillermo Prado
Introduction: Familias Unidas is an evidence-based substance use and sexual risk prevention program, designed originally for Hispanic families in the...
Lílian Patrícia Silva de Souza, Eliana Berger, Edileuza Monteiro, Francisco Bastos
The Public Ministry of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, has requested strategies in prevention actions for the use/misuse of drugs from the National...
Sheila Giardini Murta, Luis G. A. Vinha
The enhancement of positive parenting practices, family cohesion and family values has been shown to be one of the ways to prevent drug abuse among young people. The Strengthening Families Program...
Luis G. A. Vinha, Nayara D M A A Khouri, Sheila Giardini Murta
The use of both illegal and legal drugs among adolescents poses a serious problem to societies worldwide. In this sense, it is fundamental to determine the risk and...
Arthur de Oliveira Correa, Eric C. Brown, Nicole Eisenberg, John S. Briney, Juliana Mejía-Trujillo, Daniela Castillo, Marcelo Sánchez
Introduction: The increasing use of evidence-based preventive interventions in Latin America has...
Clarisse Moreira Alo, Marina Pedralho, Juliana Seidl, Mariana Russo Voydeville Damasceno, Viviane de Paula Rocha, Camila de Aquino Morais
Introduction: The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) was originally developed at the University...
Stephanie Ayers, Flavio F. Marsiglia, Stephen S. Kulis, Elizabeth Kiehne, David Alarcón, Carlos Libisch
In Uruguay, alcohol use is pervasive among adolescents between the ages of 13 and 17 (past year use: ~ 60%, past month use: ~ 40%)...