Background: In response to adverse outcomes from prescription opioids, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for …

Statistical analyses from Japan reported increasing suicides in 2020, first in the world,
proving the severity of the public health crisis during the COVID‐19 pandemic; however, so …

Faced with the threat of “Day Zero”, when it was feared that Cape Town's taps could run dry,
consumers reduced household water usage from 540 to 280 L per household per day over …

References | A Guide on Data Analysis Skip to main content A Guide on Data Analysis Show
table of contents Table of contents Preface 1 Introduction 2 Prerequisites I. BASIC 3 Descriptive …

Smoking globally kills over half of long-term smokers and causes about 7 million annual
deaths. The World Health Organization Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC) …

Background Border closure is one of the policy changes implemented to mitigate against
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We evaluated the effect of border closure on the …

Graduate and doctoral schools around the world struggle to shorten the long time to degree
and to prevent high dropout rates. While most of previous research studied individual …

In 2016 the Chilean government instituted the world's most aggressive food policy package
to prevent obesity and nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases. The package included …

This study evaluates the impact of Chile's innovative law on Food Labeling and Advertising,
enacted in June 2016, on employment and real wages and profit margins for the food and …

In Japan, suicides had consistently decreased before the COVID-19 pandemic (from 2009–
2019), but conversely increased after the pandemic outbreak (from 2020–2022). To identify …