Background: There is increasing evidence that healthcare workers (HCWs) experience
significant psychological distress during an epidemic or pandemic. Considering the increase …

Background The scale-up of tobacco control, especially after the adoption of the Framework
Convention for Tobacco Control, is a major public health success story. Nonetheless …

Evidence is emerging that obesity-associated cardiovascular disorders (CVD) show
variations across regions and ethnicities. However, it is unclear if there are distinctive …

Background Previous attempts to characterise the burden of chronic respiratory diseases
have focused only on specific disease conditions, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary …

The causal associations between cigarette smoking and human diseases are irrefutable. In
this review, we focus on the epidemiological pattern of cigarette smoking on cardiovascular …

Background Disability and mortality burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have
risen worldwide; however, the NCD burden among adolescents remains poorly described in …

Background Tuberculosis is a major contributor to the global burden of disease, causing
more than a million deaths annually. Given an emphasis on equity in access to diagnosis …

OBJECTIVES: The association between parent-reported postnatal secondhand tobacco
smoke exposure in the home and neurobehavioral disorders (attention-deficit/hyperactivity …

Background Previous studies have shown decreases in cardiovascular mortality following
the implementation of comprehensive smoking bans. It is not known whether …

Study objectives: To examine the proportion of the recent decline in coronary heart disease
(CHD) deaths in Ireland attributable to (a)“evidence based” medical and surgical treatments …