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The effectiveness of tobacco control television advertisements in increasing the prevalence of smoke-free homes (2015)
Journal Article
Lewis, S., Sims, M., Richardson, S., Langley, T., Szatkowski, L., McNeill, A., & Gilmore, A. B. (2015). The effectiveness of tobacco control television advertisements in increasing the prevalence of smoke-free homes. BMC Public Health, 15, Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2207-2

BACKGROUND: There is considerable evidence that tobacco control mass media campaigns can change smoking behaviour. In the UK, campaigns over the last decade have contributed to declines in smoking prevalence and been associated with falls in cigarett... Read More about The effectiveness of tobacco control television advertisements in increasing the prevalence of smoke-free homes.

Influenza vaccines really work? Keeping apart the true from the false (2015)
Journal Article
Nguyen-Van-Tam, J., Gross, D., Sturkenboom, M., & Parrish-Sprowl, J. (2015). Influenza vaccines really work? Keeping apart the true from the false. Vaccine, 33(49), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.08.052

A yearly seasonal flu vaccine is the best preventive method we have against influenza at this time. Even then, vaccination adoption is hampered by on-going discussions about safety and effectiveness. In order to dot the I's and cross the T's at the f... Read More about Influenza vaccines really work? Keeping apart the true from the false.

Evaluation of the ‘Live Life Better Service’, a community-based weight management service, for morbidly obese patients (2015)
Journal Article
Wallace, D., Myles, P., Holt, R., & Van-Tam, J. N. (2016). Evaluation of the ‘Live Life Better Service’, a community-based weight management service, for morbidly obese patients. Journal of Public Health, 38(2), e138-e149. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdv103

Background

There is a limited evidence on the effectiveness of lifestyle interventions in achieving and maintaining a significant level of weight loss in morbidly obese patients. This study evaluated the impact on weight loss and psychological wel... Read More about Evaluation of the ‘Live Life Better Service’, a community-based weight management service, for morbidly obese patients.

Patients' attitudes to risk in lung cancer surgery: a qualitative study (2015)
Journal Article
Powell, H. A., Jones, L. L., Baldwin, D. R., Duffy, J. P., Hubbard, R. B., Tod, A. M., Solomon, J., & Bains, M. (2015). Patients' attitudes to risk in lung cancer surgery: a qualitative study. Lung Cancer, 90(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lungcan.2015.08.014

Objectives
Lung cancer surgery leads to long term survival for some patients but little is known about how patients decide whether to accept the associated surgical risks. The objective of this qualitative study was to explore patients’ attitudes to... Read More about Patients' attitudes to risk in lung cancer surgery: a qualitative study.

Decreased fertility rates in 9639 women diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease: a United Kingdom population-based cohort study (2015)
Journal Article
Ban, L., Tata, L. J., Humes, D., Fiaschi, L., & Card, T. R. (2015). Decreased fertility rates in 9639 women diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease: a United Kingdom population-based cohort study. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 42(7), https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.13354

Background: Clinical studies have reported reduced fertility in women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Aim: To compare fertility rates in women with IBD to those in women without IBD and assess whether the relative fertility differed followi... Read More about Decreased fertility rates in 9639 women diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease: a United Kingdom population-based cohort study.

Treating tobacco dependence in older adults: a survey of primary care clinicians’ knowledge, attitudes, and practice (2015)
Journal Article
Huddlestone, L., Walker, G. M., Hussain-Mills, R., & Ratschen, E. (2015). Treating tobacco dependence in older adults: a survey of primary care clinicians’ knowledge, attitudes, and practice. BMC Family Practice, 16, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-015-0317-7

BACKGROUND: The benefits of smoking cessation among older people are well documented. Despite this, evidence suggests that older smokers are rarely engaged in smoking cessation efforts, and that existing tobacco dependence treatments require further... Read More about Treating tobacco dependence in older adults: a survey of primary care clinicians’ knowledge, attitudes, and practice.

Changes in the rate of nicotine metabolism across pregnancy: a longitudinal study (2015)
Journal Article
Bowker, K., Lewis, S., Coleman, T., & Cooper, S. (2015). Changes in the rate of nicotine metabolism across pregnancy: a longitudinal study. Addiction, 110(11), https://doi.org/10.1111/add.13029

Aims: Increased nicotine metabolism during pregnancy could explain why nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) appears to be less effective on smoking cessation in pregnancy than in non-pregnant smokers, but little is known about nicotine metabolism acros... Read More about Changes in the rate of nicotine metabolism across pregnancy: a longitudinal study.

Health-care interventions to promote and assist tobacco cessation: a review of efficacy, effectiveness and affordability for use in national guideline development (2015)
Journal Article
West, R., Raw, M., McNeill, A., Stead, L., Aveyard, P., Britton, J., Stapleton, J., McRobbie, H., Pokhrel, S., Lester-George, A., & Borland, R. (2015). Health-care interventions to promote and assist tobacco cessation: a review of efficacy, effectiveness and affordability for use in national guideline development. Addiction, 110(9), https://doi.org/10.1111/add.12998

Aims: This paper provides a concise review of the efficacy, effectiveness and affordability of health-care interventions to promote and assist tobacco cessation, in order to inform national guideline development and assist countries in planning their... Read More about Health-care interventions to promote and assist tobacco cessation: a review of efficacy, effectiveness and affordability for use in national guideline development.

Systematic review of current efforts to quantify the impacts of climate change on undernutrition (2015)
Journal Article
Phalkey, R. K., Aranda-Jan, C., Marx, S., Höfle, B., & Sauerborn, R. (in press). Systematic review of current efforts to quantify the impacts of climate change on undernutrition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(33), Article E4522-E4529. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1409769112

The World Health Organization and the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change propose undernutrition as the most significant impact of climate change on child health. The question then arises: Where does the empirical evidence to back this claim c... Read More about Systematic review of current efforts to quantify the impacts of climate change on undernutrition.