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Thomas E. Novotny
Researcher at San Diego State University
Publications - 161
Citations - 8499
Thomas E. Novotny is an academic researcher from San Diego State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public health & Tobacco control. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 152 publications receiving 7589 citations. Previous affiliations of Thomas E. Novotny include University of California, San Francisco & University of California, San Diego.
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US Department of Health and Human Services: a need for global health leadership in preparedness and health diplomacy.
TL;DR: The collective expertise of multiple disciplines must be harnessed to support the best approaches to the major global health challenges and the disciplines of epidemiology health policy economics law environmental science and certainly bioethics can make essential contributions to a comprehensive global health strategy.
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Methods used to quit smoking in the United States. Do cessation programs help
Michael C. Fiore,Thomas E. Novotny,John P. Pierce,Gary A. Giovino,Evridiki J. Hatziandreu,Polly A. Newcomb,Tanya S. Surawicz,Ronald M. Davis +7 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that cessation programs serve a small, but important, population of smokers that includes heavier smokers, those most at risk for tobacco-related morbidity and mortality.
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Trends in cigarette smoking in the United States. Educational differences are increasing.
TL;DR: The apparent recent changes in initiation patterns by educational level suggest that the converging of smoking prevalence between the genders may not continue and the large and widening educational gap in smoking suggests that health promotion priorities need to be reassessed.
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Trends in cigarette smoking in the United States. The changing influence of gender and race.
Michael C. Fiore,Thomas E. Novotny,John P. Pierce,Evridiki J. Hatziandreu,Kantilal M. Patel,Ronald M. Davis +5 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that smoking prevalence is decreasing across all race-gender groups, although at a slower rate for women than men, and that differences in initiation, more than cessation, are primarily responsible for the converging of smoking prevalence rates among men and women.
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Trends in cigarette smoking in the United States. Projections to the year 2000.
TL;DR: Public health efforts need to focus more on preventing young people from starting to smoke, and such prevention efforts should particularly target less educated socioeconomic groups.