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This factsheet provides information on what is presently known about smoking and COVID-19 during various inflection points.

Electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products (HTPs) are very different, but both are considered “novel products”. Understanding these products and the differences between them is critical to developing tobacco control policy and countering tobacco industry messaging.

Vital Strategies Brazil launched the Portuguese version of the book "Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity—Research and Public Policy," originally published by Oxford University Press. Translated by Vital Strategies and published by Dialética, the book is the world's leading reference in the field of alcohol policy.

This document describes the experience of building the Mental Health Index (MHI) in the city of Fortaleza, Brazil and tools to develop intersectoral policies on mental health, with a focus on children and adolescents.  

The authors of this systematic review comprehensively searched seven electronic databases for literature on intimate partner violence-associated and childhood sexual abuse-associated health effects. Following Following he burden of proof methodology in a systematic literature review, the authors of this study evaluated the evidence strength linking intimate partner violence and/or childhood sexual abuse to health outcomes supported by at least three studies.