Tobacco industry strategies undermine government tax policy: evidence from commercial data

R Hiscock, JR Branston, A McNeill… - Tobacco …, 2018 - tobaccocontrol.bmj.com
Objective Taxation equitably reduces smoking, the leading cause of health inequalities. The
tobacco industry (TI) can, however, undermine the public health gains realised from tobacco …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence of beliefs about actual and mythical causes of cancer and their association with socio-demographic and health-related characteristics: Findings …

L Shahab, JA McGowan, J Waller, SG Smith - European Journal of Cancer, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Literature on population awareness about actual causes of cancer is growing
but comparatively little is known about the prevalence of people's belief concerning mythical …

[HTML][HTML] The prevalence of substance use among Russian, Somali and Kurdish migrants in Finland: a population-based study

E Salama, S Niemelä, J Suvisaari, T Laatikainen… - BMC Public Health, 2018 - Springer
Background Substance use is a well-known public health problem, but population-based
research on migrants' substance use in Europe is limited. Factors related to the cultural …

[HTML][HTML] Haplotypic and Genotypic Association of Catechol-O-Methyltransferase rs4680 and rs4818 Polymorphisms and Treatment Resistance in Schizophrenia

M Sagud, L Tudor, S Uzun, MN Perkovic… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS) continues to be a challenge. It was related to
different factors, including alterations in the activity of brain dopaminergic system, which …

[HTML][HTML] Relation between mortality trends of cardiovascular diseases and selected cancers in the European Union, in 1970–2017. Focus on cohort and period effects

M Malvezzi, G Carioli, P Bertuccio, E Negri… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Aim To characterise mortality trends from major non-communicable diseases in the
European Union (EU) analysing data from the World Health Organization (WHO) Mortality …

Updated incidence trends in cardia and non-cardia gastric adenocarcinoma in Sweden

F Lagergren, SH Xie, F Mattsson, J Lagergren - Acta Oncologica, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Background The aim of this study was to provide an update of the recent incidence trends of
cardia and non-cardia gastric adenocarcinoma in Sweden. Methods Temporal trends in the …

[HTML][HTML] German public support for tobacco control policy measures: results from the German study on tobacco use (DEBRA), a representative national survey

M Boeckmann, D Kotz, L Shahab, J Brown… - International Journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Smoking prevalence in Germany remains high at approximately 28%. We assessed public
support for tobacco legislation and associations between level of support and smoking and …

[HTML][HTML] Nicotine dependence in Croatian male inpatients with schizophrenia

M Šagud, B Vuksan-Ćusa, N Jakšić, A Mihaljević-Peleš… - BMC psychiatry, 2018 - Springer
Background Patients with schizophrenia have the highest known rates of cigarette smoking,
but less is known about their smoking behavior and the differences across geographical …

Late-onset Crohn's disease is a subgroup distinct in genetic and behavioral risk factors with UC-like characteristics

D Li, T Haritunians, C Landers… - Inflammatory bowel …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Age of onset is linked to variations in clinical phenotypes and natural history in
Crohn's disease (CD). We aim to define etiologically more homogenous subgroups in CD …

[PDF][PDF] The study of the effects of the pricing policies on an organizations profit: Case study of technology businesses in Kurdistan

SSH Ameen - researchgate.net
The main purpose of this research is to examine the influence of pricing policies on
organizations' profit. The researcher applied a quantitative method to analyze the data in this …