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Smoking and other forms of tobacco consumption are considered the single most important cause of preventable morbidity and premature mortality worldwide, with tobacco the major single cause for premature deaths in the European Union (EU).Efforts to reduce the devastation of tobacco-related deaths
The long-term goal of the project is to develop a generalizable model for implementing evidence-based tobacco use treatment within existing health systems locally and globally. The objective of this proposal is to fill the current research-to-practice gap by conducting a randomized controlled trial
Aim 1: To conduct a formative evaluation.
The formative evaluation has three components: 1) Key informant interviews with leaders in the public health sector responsible for developing and implementing policy in Vietnam to assess contextual factors (e.g. district level policies) that may influence
This case-control study (the first phase of the GEMINI project) is primarily focused on exploring the etiology (etiologies) of squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus in northern Iran.
Esophageal and gastric cancers, together, are responsible for more than 1,000,000 annual deaths in the world. In
Esophageal cancer is the sixth most common cause of cancer death worldwide, killing over 380,000 people each year. Over 80% of esophageal cancers occur in developing countries, where the great majority of cases are squamous cell carcinomas. Esophageal cancer is characterized by striking geographic
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