OBJECTIVE To evaluate effects of a home-based antismoking socialization program on the initiation of smoking among children whose parents smoke. DESIGN Three-year randomized controlled trial. PARTICIPANTS Parents who were current smokers and had a child in the third grade who had not tried smoking were eligible; 873 parents-offspring pairs met these criteria, completed baseline interviews, ...

in the previous article written by the author of this paper we saw that economic principles governing  legislation policy in the field of copyright make legislator enact efficient laws and regulations on copyright and prevent him to enact contrary regulations in the same fields. the previous article considered three economic principles and now this article tries to examine two economic principl...

t he holy religion of islam regards god as the real legislator. now the question is: does the holy prophet muhammad enjoys the right of legislation too? this is an issue of disagreement between the experts. the consequence of the viewpoint of those who recognize the above-mentioned right for the prophet and the imams is to hold that the religion is imperfect; that the theory of expansion of sha...

As taxation is one of the key public policy domains influencing population health, and as there is a legal, strategic, and programmatic basis for health impact assessment (HIA) in Finland, we analyzed all 235 government bills on tax legislation over the years 2007–2014 to see whether the health impacts of the tax bills had been assessed. We found that health impacts had been assessed for 13 bil...