Background Hand-rolling tobacco (HRT) remains more affordable than factory-made (FM) cigarettes in the UK, which could ...

Correspondence to Dr Andreas Höhn, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8TB, UK; andreas.hoehn{at}glasgow.ac.uk Background Many complex public health ...

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Background In 2011, England introduced the Public Health Responsibility Deal (RD), a public-private partnership (PPP) which gave greater freedom to the food industry to set and monitor targets for ...

Alexa is a virtual assistant created by Amazon. Put simply, Alexa is an artificial intelligence (AI) service that you can interact with by using various devices or through an app on your phone. It’s ...

Background and objective Simulation models can project effects of tobacco use and cessation and inform tobacco control policies. Most existing tobacco models do not explicitly include relapse, a key ...

Introduction Although lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths in the US, recent advances in early detection and treatment have led to improvements in survival. However, there is a ...

We use microsimulation to forecast changes in coronary heart disease (CHD) among adults 45 or above over a 20-year time horizon in Los Angeles County (N = 3.4 million), a county with 12635 CHD deaths ...

Microsimulation is a form of individual-based stochastic simulation. In continuous time, microsimulation is closely related to discrete event simulation, and in discrete time it is closely related to ...

Abstract: Health decision science is a growing field that studies the use of population health data and advanced analytical tools to inform decisions. This paper describes several modeling approaches ...