Smoke-Free Families: supplement overview

SMOKE FREE FAMILIES PROJECT BRIEFS Interactive software: an educational/behavioural approach to smoking cessation for pregnant women and their families

Smoking cessation programs that have been used during pregnancy include brochures, physician advice, and counselling. Standardised self help brochures alone have minimal impact; tailored messages are more eVective. Face to face counselling requires training and is time consuming in a busy clinic. Multimedia (non-text based) approaches can reach populations with low literacy levels. Interactive ...

Smoke free hospitals.

Smoke-free homes among single-parent families: Differences associated with parental race/ethnicity and smoking behaviors

We assessed differences in the rates of smoke-free homes among single-parent households with regard to parental race/ethnicity and smoking status. We identified two cohorts representative of the U.S. single-parent households with underage children (children under the age of 18) based on the Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey: 2010-11 (n = 6474) and 2014-15 (n = 6114). The i...

Violence in families: an overview.

Wife-beating, child battering, sexual abuse, parricide ... these are some of the manifestations of violence in families. There are many others, including emotional violence as well as physically destructive behavior shown by one family member to another or to others outside the family. Is such violent behavior on the increase, or are we just more clearly aware of its existence because of better...

Overview Of Drug TranspOrTer families

Transporters are membrane proteins whose primary function is to facilitate the flux of molecules into and out of cells. Drug transporters did not evolve to transport specific drugs. Instead, their primary functions are to transport nutrients or endogenous substrates, such as sugars, amino acids, nucleotides, and vitamins, or to protect the body from dietary and environmental toxins. However, th...