Wednesday, August 31, 2011
European women live longer than men, because of both biological and behavioral advantages, but women’s longer lives are not necessarily healthy lives. Studies commented on by Dr Vannuzzo at the ESC Congress 2011, show that due to increase in tobacco and in women, the gender gap is decreasing…
A study of over 15,000 children by Demos says parenting style is one of the most important and statistically reliable influences on whether a child will drink responsibly in adolescence and adulthood – see Demos press release and blog . The findings appear to support the recent JRF report that emphasised the importance of parents in influencing teenager's drinking, and research reviews assessing parenting interventions. The Demos press release stated: Demos found that ‘tough love’ parenting, combining consistent warmth and discipline, was the most effective parenting style to prevent unhealthy relationships with alcohol right into the mid-thirties age range
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy
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Tagged best-parenting, child, from-the-report, government, health, importance, influence, likelihood, makes-the-child, parenting-style, policy, press-release, research, support-parents, young people
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A study of over 15,000 children by Demos says parenting style is one of the most important and statistically reliable influences on whether a child will drink responsibly in adolescence and adulthood – see Demos press release and blog . The findings appear to support the recent JRF report that emphasised the importance of parents in influencing teenager's drinking, and research reviews assessing parenting interventions. The Demos press release stated: Demos found that ‘tough love’ parenting, combining consistent warmth and discipline, was the most effective parenting style to prevent unhealthy relationships with alcohol right into the mid-thirties age range.
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy
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Tagged best-parenting, binge drinking, child, from-the-report, government, health, importance, influence, makes-the-child, parenting-style, policy, press-release, research, support-parents, young people
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Gil Kerlikowske, Director of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), today announced $12.3 million in new Drug Free Communities Support Program (DFC) grants to 87 communities and 20 new DFC Mentoring grants across the country…
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Narghile smoking by young females is becoming more acceptable than cigarettes in the conservative societies of Arab countries.
Filed in Harm Reduction, tobacco
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Tagged among-young, arabic, becoming-more, changing, conservative, health-hazards, offspring, population, the-population, tobacco, tobacco-use, vulnerable, women-as-shown
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Narghile smoking by young females is becoming more acceptable than cigarettes in the conservative societies of Arab countries. Lack of social constraints on narghile smoking has resulted in an increased prevalence of narghile smoking among young Arab females and an earlier age of onset of this habit when compared to cigarette smoking.Documented health hazards of narghile smoking including pulmonary, cardiovascular and neoplastic ailments are consequently expected to affect this vulnerable sector of the population together with their offspring.
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Tagged among-young, arabic, changing, conservative, health-hazards, offspring, population, tobacco, tobacco-use, vulnerable, women-as-shown, young-females
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One of the major influences on whether a child will binge drink between the ages of 16 and 34 years is the parenting style of their mother and/or father, UK think tank Demos revealed after carrying out a study involving over 15,000 children…
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Recent research from the drug and alcohol Effectiveness Bank : Parenting intervention has remarkable impact on teen drunkenness In this initial developer-led trial in one county in Sweden, routine parent-school meetings encouraging commitment to take a strong stand against underage drinking had a remarkable impact on adolescent drunkenness. Benefits fade after fine-tuning prevention to high risk personality traits Addressing the substance use promoting tendencies of the personality traits of London schoolchildren at particular risk of substance misuse led to persistently lower drink-related problems, but after a year drinking itself was not significantly affected. Parent-child intervention prevents heavy drinking in Dutch teens In this Dutch study, promoting parental rule setting and classroom alcohol education together nearly halved the proportion of adolescents who later went to drink heavily.
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Tagged alcohol, average-student, binge drinking, convincing, effectiveness, london, personality, proportion, substance, sweden, telling-college, the-personality, used-the-same
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ABSTRACT Aims To describe some of the variability across the world in levels of quit smoking attempts and use of various forms of cessation support. Design Use of the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project surveys of smokers, using the 2007 survey wave (or later, where necessary)
Abstract Aim: The study’s objectives were to characterize initiation of injection drug use, examine the independent association of specific substance use with injection drug use, and determine factors associated with rates of transition from first illicit drug use to first injection among a sample of rural Appalachian drug users. Design: Interview-administered questionnaires were administered to a sample of drug users recruited via respondent-driven sampling. Setting: Appalachian Kentucky Participants: Injection drug users (IDUs) (n=394) and non-IDUs (n=109) Measurements: Data were collected on substance use and years from age at initiation of illicit substance use to event’ (initiation of injection or date of baseline interview for non-IDUs).