Study design: Literature review. Objectives: To map traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI)
globally and provide a framework for an ongoing repository of data for prevention. Setting …

Smoking prevalence is lower among women than men in most countries, yet there are about
200 million women in the world who smoke, and in addition, there are millions more who …

Tobacco consumption is increasing in developing countries, which will bear the brunt of the
tobacco epidemic in the 21st century. If current smoking patterns continue, 7 of the world's …

Summary The UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in
September, 2011, is an unprecedented opportunity to create a sustained global movement …

Cardiovascular disease now ranks as the world's top cause of death, causing one third of all
deaths globally. Heart disease can no longer be seen as the problem of overworked and …

The Tobacco Atlas is intended for anyone concerned with personal or political health,
governance, politics, economics, big business, corporate behavior, smuggling, tax, religion …

anniversary since the release of the first Atlas in 2002. The completely revised and updated
resource places a special emphasis on the changes that have occurred, positive and …

Background In patients with hypertension, the long-term cardiovascular and all-cause
mortality effects of different blood pressure-lowering regimens and lipid-lowering treatment …

The time has come for the world to acknowledge the unacceptability of the damage being
done by the tobacco industry and work towards a world essentially free from the sale (legal …

For the purpose of this article, Asia refers to WHO's combined South-East Asia and Western
Pacific regions and thus includes Australia and New Zealand. Asia has the highest number …