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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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Smoking among rural and urban young women in China.
TL;DR: This is the first report that having heard of women's cigarettes is a correlate of smoking among young Chinese women, and thus, specific prevention strategies need to be developed to prevent the tobacco epidemic from spreading among this vulnerable population.
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The environmental and health impacts of tobacco agriculture, cigarette manufacture and consumption.
Thomas E. Novotny,Stella Aguinaga Bialous,Lindsay Burt,Clifton Curtis,Vera Luiza da Costa,Silvae Usman Iqtidar,Yuchen Liu,Sameer Pujari,Edouard Tursan d'Espaignet +8 more
TL;DR: The environmental impacts of the tobacco life-cycle are detailed and suggested policy responses are suggested to reduce the environmental harms of tobacco production and use.
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Rates and independent correlates of Pap smear testing among Korean-American women.
Barbara A. Wismer,Joel M. Moskowitz,A M Chen,S H Kang,Thomas E. Novotny,K Min,Lew R,Ira B. Tager +7 more
TL;DR: Rates of Pap testing among Korean-American women are well below national objectives, and collaboration and community-sensitive research are essential to collect data and design programs to improve the health of ethnic minority communities.
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Trends in smoking by age and sex, United States, 1974-1987: the implications for disease impact.
Thomas E. Novotny,Michael C. Fiore,Evridiki J. Hatziandreu,Gary A. Giovino,Sherry L. Mills,John P. Pierce +5 more
TL;DR: The data suggest that even with favorable recent changes in the overall smoking prevalence of the U.S. population, the disease impact of smoking will increase for decades, especially among women, if increased attention is given to cessation among women in general and to the post-World War II generation of both male and female smokers.
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Think Globally, Act Locally, and Collaborate Internationally: Global Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco
Sarah B. Macfarlane,Nina Agabian,Thomas E. Novotny,George W. Rutherford,Christopher C. Stewart,Haile T. Debas +5 more
TL;DR: Recognizing that the existing academic structure at UCSF may be inadequate to address the complexity of global health threats in the 21st century, GHS is working with the nine other campuses of the University of California to develop a university-wide transdisciplinary initiative in global health.