Search results for: Hadii Mamudu
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Current Cardiology Reports > 2018 > 20 > 5 > 1-7
Purpose of Review To review the landmark studies in predicting obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) in symptomatic patients with stable chest pain and identify better prediction tools and propose a simplified algorithm to guide the health care providers in identifying low risk patients to defer further testing. Recent Findings There are a few risk prediction models described for stable chest...
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Public Administration > 93 > 4 > 856 - 873
The World Health Organization has fostered a new global public policy – the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC). Until the 1980s, tobacco control was the sole preserve of states. Now, most countries accept the transnational nature of policy. We explain this shift by identifying mutually reinforcing changes in key policy process elements: transnational actors became a source of policy learning;...
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly > 29 > 2 > 256 - 277
The World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is the first international public health treaty to address the global spread of tobacco products. Ethnographic research at the fourth meeting of the FCTC's Conference of the Parties in Uruguay highlights the role of the FCTC in recalibrating the relationship between international trade and investment agreements and those...
