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Public Health Policies on E-Cigarettes

Current Cardiology Reports, 2019
Tobacco continues to kill about 0.48 million Americans per year and there are currently 34.3 million smokers in the USA. As a consequence of the First Surgeon General’s Report on Tobacco in 1964, tobacco control interventions on part of the government ...
Aditya Bhalerao, Farzane Sivandzade, Sabrina Rahman Archie, L. Cucullo   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Forecasting the Dialysis Burden in Japan: Validation‐Based Projections of Prevalence and Incidence Through 2050

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Japan has one of the highest dialysis prevalence rates worldwide and a shrinking, aging population. Whether dialysis burden has entered a sustained post‐peak phase or whether recent declines partly reflect pandemic‐related disruptions remains uncertain.
Hatice Şahin, Berrak Itır Aylı, Nüket Paksoy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can health system be resilient in a Failed State? Lessons from a scoping review in Haiti

Discover Health Systems
Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face many environmental, economic, political and social challenges. Alongside recurrent acute shocks, Haiti experiences various chronic shocks earning it the label of a ‘Failed State’.
Patricia St Louis, Alice Wautié, Samuel Lwamushi Makali, Carlene Radix, Elisabeth Paul   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Health Policy Election [PDF]

JAMA, 2012
MUCH IS AT STAKE IN THE 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECtion. President Barack Obama’s vision and former Governor Mitt Romney’s vision differ across many domains, but perhaps most starkly in the area of health policy. Fundamentally, the candidates disagree on the role of government as the guarantor of affordable access to health insurance, as evidenced by their ...
Aaron E, Carroll, Austin B, Frakt
openaire   +2 more sources

The effects of public health policies on health inequalities in high-income countries: an umbrella review

BMC Public Health, 2018
BackgroundSocio-economic inequalities are associated with unequal exposure to social, economic and environmental risk factors, which in turn contribute to health inequalities.
Katie H. Thomson, F. Hillier-Brown, A. Todd, Courtney L. McNamara, T. Huijts, C. Bambra   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Identification of a Shiga toxin A‐derived peptide internalized into Gb3 receptor‐bearing cells via interaction with the Shiga toxin B subunit

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The process of internalization of the Shiga toxin A subunit via formation of a complex with the Shiga toxin B subunit, which specifically binds to the Gb3 receptor. The peptide is designed to act as a carrier of drugs into cancer cells. Here, we explored the potential of peptides derived from the catalytic A subunit of Shiga toxin (STxA) to be drug ...
Giulia Opassi, João C. Encarnação, Valeria Napolitano, Grzegorz Dubin, Grzegorz Popowicz, Karl Andersson, U. Helena Danielson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Barriers and Facilitators in Pricing and Funding Policies of European Countries That Impact the Use of Point-of-Care Diagnostics for Acute Respiratory Tract Infections in Outpatient Practices

Diagnostics, 2023
Antimicrobial resistance is a major global health threat, which is increased by the irrational use of antibiotics, for example, in the treatment of respiratory tract infections in community care.
Caroline Steigenberger, Friederike Windisch, Sabine Vogler   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Policy development and challenges of global mental health: a systematic review of published studies of national-level mental health policies

BMC Psychiatry, 2018
BackgroundMental health policy can be an essential and powerful tool to improve a population’s mental health. However, around one third of countries do not possess a mental health policy, and there are large disparities in population coverage rates ...
Wei Zhou, Yu Yu, Mei Yang, Li-Zhang Chen, S. Xiao   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Circulating microRNA signatures of cachexia and cancer in Canis familiaris as a comparative oncology model for human disease

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Circulating microRNAs as biomarkers of cachexia and sex‐specific cancer in senior dogs. In 25 client‐owned dogs, four circulating miRNAs (miR‐15a, miR‐15b, miR‐16, miR‐140) were downregulated in cachexia, with miR‐16 the strongest individual biomarker (AUC = 0.899).
Soon‐Seok Park, Kyongman An, Gyeonghwa Kim, Soo‐Nyun Choi, Hong‐Ki Lee, Keun Hur, Kyu‐Shik Jeong   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fisheries, food, and health in the USA: the importance of aligning fisheries and health policies

Agriculture & Food Security, 2017
Background Food availability, access, and utilization are the three pillars of food security and need to be aligned in order to support a healthy population. United States (US) fisheries policy plays an important role in seafood availability.
D. Love, Patricia Pinto da Silva, J. Olson, Jillian P. Fry, Patricia M. Clay   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source