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Home / Archives for Carrá G

A review of regional drug strategies across the world: How is prevention perceived and addressed?

  • Autores: Ballotta D, Carrá G, Dias S, Ferri M
  • Ano de Publicação: 2015
  • Journal: Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy
  • Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/09687637.2015.1041456%20

Regional drug strategies and action plans are intergovernmental policy documents that address drug-related problems. This article analyses six of these strategies, involving 148 countries in four continents. We focus in particular on how the prevention of drug-related problems is described, and if a comprehensive approach (such as environmental prevention) is used. All the documents include […]
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Web- and text-based interventions for smoking cessation: Meta-analysis and meta-regression

  • Autores: Bartoli F, Carrá G, Carretta D, Crocamo C, Dias S, Ferri M
  • Ano de Publicação: 2017
  • Journal: Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy
  • Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687637.2017.1285867?scroll=top&needAccess=true

Background: In the past decade, several smoking cessation interventions have been developed and implemented through information and communication technology (ICT). Evidence suggests that they might be suitable for large-scale public health interventions, based on updated communication media characteristics in terms of interplay between technology and graphical user interface, reaching high numbers of individuals. Objectives: We […]
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Quality assurance in drug demand reduction in European countries: an overview

  • Autores: Ballotta D, Bo A, Carrá G, Dias S, Ferri M, Simon R
  • Ano de Publicação: 2016
  • Journal: Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy
  • Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09687637.2016.1236904?journalCode=idep20

Background: The EMCDDA, through its network of National Focal Points, collects information on the quality assurance systems for drugs-related interventions across European countries. European National Drug Strategies include recommendations for systems and approaches for the assurance of the quality of interventions. Methods: We searched National Drug Strategies for elements related to quality assurance in drug […]
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