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Tob Prev Cessat
January 2025
School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
The illicit trade of tobacco products trade continues to challenge tobacco control efforts in several African countries, including Ghana. Ghana recently ratified the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC) Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products ('the Protocol'). This Protocol aims to eliminate all kinds of illicit tobacco.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Should a young person receive psychotherapy or medication for their depression and on what evidence do we base this decision? In this paper, we test the factors across modalities that may influence comparability between medication and psychotherapy trials.
Methods: We included 92 randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of psychotherapy and medication for child and adolescent depression (mean age 4-18 years). Using meta-analyses, we compared (a) participant characteristics and (b) trial characteristics in medication and psychotherapy trials.
Tob Prev Cessat
January 2025
School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Introduction: The global burden of tobacco is a significant public health concern, causing millions of deaths, illnesses, and economic losses annually. In Türkiye, tobacco use is deeply ingrained in society, with historical roots dating back to Ottoman times. The nation faces challenges such as high smoking rates, gender disparities, and the popularity of non-cigarette tobacco products.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhilos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
January 2025
BirdLife International, David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK.
The Red List Index (RLI) is an indicator of the average extinction risk of groups of species and reflects trends in this through time. It is calculated from the number of species in each category on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, with trends influenced by the number moving between categories when reassessed owing to genuine improvement or deterioration in status. The global RLI is aggregated across multiple taxonomic groups and can be disaggregated to show trends for subsets of species (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhilos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
January 2025
Biodiversity Futures Lab, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK.
Georgina Mace proposed bending the curve of biodiversity loss as a fitting ambition for the Convention on Biological Diversity. The new Global Biodiversity Monitoring Framework (GBMF) may increase the chances of meeting the goals and targets in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF), which requires bending the curve. To meet the outcome goals of KMGBF, the GBMF should support adaptive policy responses to the state of biodiversity, which in turn requires a 'satnav' for nature.
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