Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The NHS Public Health Outcomes Framework has been published, aiming to tackle public health challenges through moving public health back into local government.
Filed in Guidance, UK Alcohol Policy
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Also tagged from-the-focus, government, health, health-measures, joint-health, joint-strategic, make-the-most, minister-diane, policy, press-release, public-health, shadow, shadow-health
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Monday, December 19, 2011
The NHS Operating Framework 2012/13 was recently published and sets out business planning arrangements and national priorities for the year ahead. The framework contains a number of 'Domain areas' within which there is scope to consider implications for alcohol harm reduction. Domain One is prevention of premature death, which strongly advocates the early recognition and treatment of chronic conditions.
Filed in Guidance, Harm Reduction, UK Alcohol Policy, recovery
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Also tagged domain-four, Guidance, health, innovation, joint-strategic, mental, nuffield-trust, recovery, safeguarding, the-enhancement, the-fulfillment
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Conclusions: The HCV infection was popular among opiate drug users in Beijing. The findings indicated the need for educating the users taking into account their low literacy levels and the necessity for job training and decreasing the injection drug use and the frequency of drug use administrated as the prevention and intervention methods for controlling the HIV/HCV infection in this population.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged alcohol-abuse, frequency, injection, injection-drug, low-literacy, necessity, opiate-drug, population, the-frequency, the-necessity, the-prevention, users
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
The Food and Drug Administration [FDA] is likely to follow a government-mandated report just issued by the Institute of Medicine [IOM] which recommends that nicotine products designed to substitute for cigarette smoking — because they are allegedly far less hazardous — be subjected to such comprehensive and expensive testing that all but the largest tobacco or drug companies may not be able to afford to put them on the market, says the public interest law professor behind the ban on cigarette commercials, on smoking in many public places, and who helped get the FDA jurisdiction over tobacco. Under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, the statute which gave the FDA jurisdiction over cigarettes and other nicotine products, a “modified risk tobacco product” [MRTP]– which is a tobacco product less hazardous than cigarettes — can legally be sold only if it is certified by the FDA.
Filed in tobacco
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Also tagged behind-the-ban, companies, family, family-smoking, health, institute, medicine, population, requirements, tobacco, tobacco-control, tobacco-or-drug
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
This report adds to comments and recommendations submitted to the FDA on this topic, including information obtained from a public workshop in August 2011 and an associated open public docket.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
The passage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 (FSPTCA) granted the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) broad authority to regulate the manufacturing, distribution, and marketing of tobacco products. The law also provides the FDA with authority to regulate “modified risk tobacco products” (MRTPs), tobacco products that are either designed or advertised to reduce harm or the risk of tobacco-related disease. . .
Filed in Guidance, tobacco
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Also tagged allow-marketing, country, designed, family-smoking, food, Guidance, help-the-fda, its-evaluation, manufacturing, potential, the-protection
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Xie Jianping, a newly elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) has been criticized over his tobacco research, which claims low-tar cigarettes are less harmful to health. Yang Gonghuan, deputy director of Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention described electing Xie as a member of the CAE as shameful, accusing him of doing research that misleads the public and helps the tobacco industry profit. The public has paid little attention to academician elections for a long time, so why has Xie’s election become a high-profile event rather than just an ignored scientific matter
Friday, November 25, 2011
Abstract Aims Using cross-sectional national survey data, we assessed young peoples’ beliefs about the role of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana in the prevention and treatment of mental disorders as well as the predictors of these beliefs. We also compared these findings with those from a similar survey carried out in 2006.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Today is the American Cancer Society’s 36th annual Great American Smokeout, but after 35 years, we might expect to see better results. There are still 45 million smokers in the U.S., and 440,000 smoking-related deaths every year, according to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). The toll is 7,400 in Kentucky, nearly 18,000 in Ohio.