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NEW: Healthcare improves in research active healthcare organisations - our updated review published today with @AnnetteBoaz and others:
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@SubhashPokhrel , Professor of Public Health Economics at Brunel University in London and co-author of the study said smokeless tobacco is socially acceptable in these countries & is also cheap: a sachet of paan masala costs just five to ten rupees (six to 12 US cents).
Smokeless tobacco products such as paan masala bring an enormous human and economic cost in South Asia. Reducing this will involve taking on societal norms and a powerful industry, I report for @CancerWorldmag
https://t.co/789E0SqdBE
We will try to answer these questions:
What is the vision and what gets us there?
What progress have we made so far in realising this vision?
What is the cost of ‘no action’?
New Preprint with @AnnetteBoaz: If health organisations and staff engage in research, does healthcare improve? Strengthening the evidence base through systematic reviews. #research#healthcare#systematicreviews
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Full marks to University of York and Prof Kamran Siddiqui for his great work through ASTRA in highlighting the issue of SLT in SE Asia. Together with betel nut use SLT remains the most imprtant prevetable cause of head and neck cancer in this part of the world.