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Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between economic development and tobacco consumption in Spain, using the Kuznets Curve framework. Drawing on panel data from Spanish provinces (2002–2021), the findings confirm that GDP has a non‐linear effect on cigarette consumption.
Miguel Ángel Del Arco‐Osuna +3 more
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Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 2019 Introduction This brief report examined prior cessation attempts, attitudes toward nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), and interests in cessation interventions among head and neck cancer (HNC) patients with a recent smoking history (current smokers and ...
Chandylen L Nightingale PhD, MPH +4 more
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Tailored Patient Information: Some Issues and Questions [PDF]
Proceedings of the 1997 ACL Workshop on From Research to
Commercial Applications: Making NLP Work in Practice, 1997 Tailored patient information (TPI) systems are computer programs which produce personalised heath-information material for patients. TPI systems are of growing interest to the natural-language generation (NLG) community; many TPI systems have also been developed in the medical community, usually with mail-merge technology.
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Postdiagnosis Smoking Cessation and Survival Outcomes of Head and Neck Cancer Patients
Head &Neck, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Post‐diagnosis smoking remains prevalent among head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) patients. Smoking cessation may improve patient outcomes. Methods A prospective longitudinal cohort study (2008–2014) included 835 newly diagnosed HNSCC patients and followed up for 7 years. Participants were categorized by smoking behavior (
Elham Mohebbi +11 more
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Reality and possibility of smoking cessation support and collaborative approach by dental hygienists
Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2019 Objective We examined how dental hygienists support smoking cessation in their routine regular check-up sessions. In Japan, where primary medical care is provided by universal health insurance (UHI), smoking cessation support is not included in dental ...
Hidetoshi Akimoto +2 more
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Conflict diagnostics for evidence synthesis in a multiple testing framework [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Evidence synthesis models that combine multiple datasets of varying design, to estimate quantities that cannot be directly observed, require the formulation of complex probabilistic models that can be expressed as graphical models. An assessment of whether the different datasets synthesised contribute information that is consistent with each other, and
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Weight control program reinforces smoking cessation. [PDF]
, 1988 A B Wittsten
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International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.What's New? Personal history of cancer is an independent risk factor of developing lung cancer but is omitted from screening guidelines. In this study, we assessed lung cancer risk among cancer survivors across different sites of first primary cancer stratified by individuals' lung cancer screening eligibility status.
Sara Nofal +7 more
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Extracting Factual Min/Max Age Information from Clinical Trial Studies [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Population age information is an essential characteristic of clinical trials. In this paper, we focus on extracting minimum and maximum (min/max) age values for the study samples from clinical research articles. Specifically, we investigate the use of a neural network model for question answering to address this information extraction task. The min/max
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Environment, lifestyle, and cancer in women
International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.Abstract Environmental and lifestyle factors significantly contribute to gynecological cancers. The risk of ovarian cancer, one the most lethal gynecological cancer, is associated with obesity, poor dietary habits, and environmental pollutants, exacerbating hormonal imbalances, inflammation, and oxidative stress.
Sara Farina +3 more
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