Case for investment in tobacco cessation: a population-based analysis in low- and middle-income countries.

This study aimed to estimate the return on investments of three population-level tobacco cessation strategies and three pharmacological interventions. The analysis included 124 low- and middle-income countries, and assumed a 10-year investment period (2021-2030). The results indicate that all six cessation programmes could help about 152 million tobacco users quit and save 2.

Smoking cessation services in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: highlights and findings from the WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2019.

The report aimed to review and assess the status of tobacco cessation services in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). Nearly 70% of people in the Region have legal access to nicotine-replacement therapy but for 77% of these people the costs of the treatment are not covered. Bupropion and Varenicline are legally available in 10 and 11 EMR countries respectively.

The WHO-ERS Smoking Cessation Training Project: the first year of experience.

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Effectiveness of using group visit model to support diabetes patient self-management in rural communities of Shanghai: a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Diabetes has become a major public health problem in China. Support of patient self-management is a key component of effective diabetes care and improved patient outcomes. A series of peer-led community-based disease-specific self-management programs including diabetes have been widely disseminated in urban communities of Shanghai since 1999.

Qualitative evaluation of Chronic Disease Self Management Program (CDSMP) in Shanghai.

Objectives: To explore the impact of Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) on participants' perception of their behavior, health status and quality of life and how the program achieve its benefits, and to collect suggestions for future improvement and dissemination.

Methods: Qualitative data were obtained from 57 participants attending all sessions of the CDSMP course using semi-structured interviews and analyzed using content analysis.

Results: The interviewees perceived that CDSMP improved their knowledge, self-management skills, positive health behavior, increased self-confidence, health status and quality of life.

[Discussion on necessity of introduction of qualitative research into clinical research of traditional Chinese medicine].

Currently, the model of the research evaluation system of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is set up through imitating that of western medicine. The application of quantitative research to TCM does promote the advance of modernization of TCM, which explore the part of TCM that can be measured in quantitative method. However, TCM has a background of profound philosophy and culture.

[Study on the prevalence of arthritis and relevant factors in Shanghai].

Objective: This study aimed to understand the prevalence rate, epidemiological characteristics and relevant factors of arthritis in Shanghai.

Methods: A sample of 7 575 residents aged 15 years and above was drawn from 6 communities under multiple stage cluster sampling. A household survey with questionnaire was carried out to differentiate both undiagnosed patients and those with definite arthritis.

Implementation and quantitative evaluation of chronic disease self-management programme in Shanghai, China: randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of the Shanghai Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP).

Methods: A randomized controlled trial with six-month follow-up compared patients who received treatment with those who did not receive treatment (waiting-list controls) in five urban communities in Shanghai, China. Participants in the treatment group received education from a lay-led CDSMP course and one copy of a help book immediately; those in the control group received the same education and book six months later.