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A Call for Health Equity in Tobacco Control and Treatment for the Justice-involved Population

Tuesday, December 17, 2024  
Posted by: Natalia Gromov

Gorrilla AA, Kaye JT, Pavlik J, Bonniot C, Vijayaraghavan M, Conner KL, Morris CD.
A Call for Health Equity in Tobacco Control and Treatment for the Justice-involved Population
Am J Prev Med. 2024 Oct;67(4):631-636. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2024.05.020. Epub 2024 Jun 3. PMID: 38838793.

Tobacco-related disparities in the justice-involved population represent a largely ignored health equity and human rights issue. Read this new paper in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine that we co-authored with colleagues at the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention and the University of Colorado Department of Psychiatry. To read more, click here for the journal article.