Opioid Harm Reduction Strategies for Age-Friendly Rural Communities

Reducing Fatal Opioid Overdose: Prevention, Treatment and Harm Reduction Strategies

The opioid overdose epidemic is a major threat to the public's health, resulting in the development and implementation of a variety of strategies to reduce fatal overdose. Many strategies are focused on primary prevention and increased access to effective treatment, although the past decade has seen an exponential increase in harm reduction initiatives. To maximize identification of opportuniti...

Conceptualizing age-friendly communities.

On the political and policy front, interest has increased in making communities more "age-friendly", an ongoing trend since the World Health Organization launched its global Age-Friendly Cities project. We conceptualize age-friendly communities by building on the WHO framework and applying an ecological perspective. We thereby aim to make explicit key assumptions of the interplay between the pe...

User Friendly Authentication Mechanism for Rural Communities

This paper proposes a simple, user friendly but more secure mechanism for user authentication. Developing countries should make necessary changes to the technologies in developed countries before using them in developing countries without blindly using technologies in developed countries. If they realize value of their cultural aspects and value systems they can have state of the art systems wi...

Harm Reduction: Good Practice in Asia Integration of Harm Reduction into Abstinence-based Therapeutic Communities

Strategies for an effective tobacco harm reduction policy in Indonesia

Tobacco consumption is a major causative agent for various deadly diseases such as coronary artery disease and cancer. It is the largest avoidable health risk in the world, causing more problems than alcohol, drug use, high blood pressure, excess body weight or high cholesterol. As countries like Indonesia prepare to develop national policy guidelines for tobacco harm reduction, the scientific ...