public health policy

Smoking and Obesity in Chile’s Third National Health Survey

Scientific article

18 October 2018

ABSTRACT The Chilean Ministry of Health recently disclosed the first results of the 2016–2017 National Health Survey (Encuesta Nacional de Salud, ENS). The survey was cross-sectional and used a multistage stratified random sampling strategy...

Reducing Opioid-Related Deaths in the UK

Book

1 December 2016

Robust messages for the government from the UK’s official drug policy advisers: Ageing profile of multiply-ill heroin users will continue to press up drug-related deaths. To counteract this pressure government must maintain investment in...

Tobacco and Cancer: Epidemiology and New Perspectives of Prevention and Monitoring in Mexico

Scientific article

1 March 2016

Tobacco smoking is a causal risk factor of at least 16 different types of cancer. In Mexico, smoking causes 6,035 premature deaths annually of lung cancer and 5,154 from other types. Additionally, 16,408 new smoking attributable cases are...