Pharmacists aim for state office

The state of office-based interventions for youth tobacco use.

Tobacco use is a serious pediatric health issue as dependence begins during childhood or adolescence in the majority of tobacco users. Primary care settings provide tremendous opportunities for delivering tobacco treatment to young tobacco users. Although evidence-based practice guidelines for treating nicotine dependence in youths are not yet available, professional organizations and the curre...

Editorial: What we aim for

W hat is the level of quality and impact that we aim for in articles published in EMPH? This is an interdisciplinary journal that addresses a broad audience. Interdisciplinary work is often thought to suffer from a lack of rigor because it can escape the scrutiny that referees habitually apply to work in core disciplines. That is not what we intend here. We hold interdisciplinary work to a high...

Aim Project-concept Document Aim Scheduler Designs and Implementations

In this document, we discuss the philosophy, theory, and practice of scheduling computational processes on target hardware in the context of the Adaptive Image Manager (AIM) project. Emphasis is placed on (a) operational constraints, (b) highand low-level structure and functionality of technique, (c) algorithms and statistical analysis, and (d) design and performance analysis of the prototype a...

A practical guide for pharmacists

Tobacco related knowledge and support for smoke-free policies among community pharmacists in Lagos state, Nigeria

BACKGROUND There are no safe levels of exposure to second hand smoke and smoke-free policies are effective in reducing the burden of tobacco-related diseases and death. Pharmacists, as a unique group of health professionals, might be able to play a role in the promotion of smoke-free policies. OBJECTIVE To determine the tobacco-related knowledge of community pharmacists and assess their suppo...