Practice

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This user guide focuses on how comprehensive tobacco control programs can deliver effective health communications. Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs—2014 recommends mass-reach health communication interventions as...

Abstract Objective To examine changes in hospital workers’ interventions before and after online training. Method Pre-post evaluation of the self-reported performance of the 5A's by hospital workers from the three organizations involved. We...

Time to consolidate the lessons of the online course on drug treatment's last five instalments, all on medical treatment of drug dependence. Medications most clearly mark an intervention as ‘medical’, but are never all there is to treatment...

Rewarding people dependent on illegal drugs for not using those drugs is a controversial tactic, one this report from the European Union’s drug misuse centre found patchily effective in extending retention and reducing substance use as a...

Abstract Background: There is growing awareness of the detrimental effects of alcohol industry commercial activities, and concern about possible adverse impacts of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, on public health. The...