KK Cheng
@kkcheng.bsky.social
Applied health researcher. Passionate about primary care, especially in LMICs.
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/applied-health/cheng-kk
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/applied-health/cheng-kk
Good news. Teenage birth rates dropped by half in the last 10 years in Brazil. Their experience suggests that less affluent nations "can break the entrenched cycle of teenage pregnancies through education, economic development, and expanding the healthcare system."
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Brazil’s teen pregnancy rate is plummeting: what can other countries learn from it?
Teenage pregnancies in Brazil have been stubbornly high for decades, but a range of efforts to tackle this inequality are finally bearing results. Luke Taylor reports
For decades Brazil has struggled...
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June 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Good news. Teenage birth rates dropped by half in the last 10 years in Brazil. Their experience suggests that less affluent nations "can break the entrenched cycle of teenage pregnancies through education, economic development, and expanding the healthcare system."
shorturl.at/cEPt2
shorturl.at/cEPt2
E-cigarettes remain controversial. All medical interventions have s/e but not many (except those used in pregnancy) that aim to help adults would end up harming completely unrelated children. When you see a trial like this, you start wondering...
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Varenicline for Youth Nicotine Vaping Cessation
This randomized clinical trial evaluates the efficacy of varenicline plus behavioral counseling, compared with placebo plus behavioral counseling or with enhanced usual care (behavioral counseling alo...
jamanetwork.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:10 AM
E-cigarettes remain controversial. All medical interventions have s/e but not many (except those used in pregnancy) that aim to help adults would end up harming completely unrelated children. When you see a trial like this, you start wondering...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
""Britain’s economy is focused on London and without the capital the UK would be poorer per head than Mississippi, the poorest state in the US. “We are not a rich country; we are a poor country with a few rich people.”".
One million excess deaths were linked to deprivation between 2009 and 2020, Michael Marmot told a Royal College of Physicians conference.
Marmot calculated 148 000 can be directly linked to austerity measures introduced by the coalition government in 2010
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Marmot calculated 148 000 can be directly linked to austerity measures introduced by the coalition government in 2010
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
June 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
""Britain’s economy is focused on London and without the capital the UK would be poorer per head than Mississippi, the poorest state in the US. “We are not a rich country; we are a poor country with a few rich people.”".