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Cannabis Caught Between Smoke And Mirrors, Laura M. Olivieri Robles
Cannabis Caught Between Smoke And Mirrors, Laura M. Olivieri Robles
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Cannabis legalization advances across the country and social attitudes are changing. Public health experts see parallels with the tobacco industry-- and are concerned about kids exposed to cannabis advertisement.
Incorporating The New Blood Pressure Guidelines Into Practice, Susan H. Davide, Anty Lam
Incorporating The New Blood Pressure Guidelines Into Practice, Susan H. Davide, Anty Lam
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Moral Mode Switching: From Punishment To Public Health, Stephen Koppel
Moral Mode Switching: From Punishment To Public Health, Stephen Koppel
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A public health response to drug offenses has potential to improve both public safety and public health. However, the public’s desire for retribution represents a possible hindrance to reform. Relying on dual-process theory of moral decision-making, this dissertation examines agreement among laypeople about the relative blame deserved for various crime types, and probes several possible predictors of support—the need for cognition (“NFC”), intergroup bias, and free-will doubt—for retributive as well as consequentialist responses to crime. Findings from several web-based experiments show: (a) in comparison to core crimes (eg., murder) substantially less agreement about the relative blame deserved for noncore crimes …
Factors Associated With Perceived Accuracy Of The Undetectable = Untransmittable Slogan Among Men Who Have Sex With Men: Implications For Messaging Scale-Up And Implementation, H Jonathon Rendina, J T. Parsons
Factors Associated With Perceived Accuracy Of The Undetectable = Untransmittable Slogan Among Men Who Have Sex With Men: Implications For Messaging Scale-Up And Implementation, H Jonathon Rendina, J T. Parsons
Publications and Research
Introduction: Recent research has shown high efficacy of HIV treatment for reducing the risk of HIV transmission to sexual partners. As the efficacy of treatment as prevention (TasP) has proliferated, a new messaging campaign, Undetectable = Untransmittable, has been gaining popularity. The purpose of this paper was to assess factors associated with the perceived accuracy of this TasP messaging strategy among a large and diverse sample of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) in order to inform subsequent efforts at large-scale and implementation of the HIV prevention message.
Methods: We conducted a nationwide survey of …