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The Nature of the Rural-Urban Mortality Gap

Published March 2024
U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Cites two studies published by Dr. Stokes and colleagues in the American Journal of Public Health and Health Affairs, entitled “Contribution of Obesity to International Differences in Life Expectancy” and “Projecting the Effect of Changes in Smoking and Obesity on Future Life Expectancy in the United States”

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Impact of COVID-19 on Vulnerable Populations in Texas

Published December 2022
Texas Health and Human Services Commission

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Cites estimates from a study published by Dr. Stokes and colleagues as a pre-print and later in Science Advances entitled “Monthly excess mortality across counties in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, March 2020 to February 2022”

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Smoking Cessation: A Report of the Surgeon General

Published January 2020
The Office of the U.S. Surgeon General

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Cites multiple studies by Dr. Stokes and colleagues including: (1) “E-cigarette initiation and associated changes in smoking cessation and reduction: the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study, 2013–2015” in Tobacco Control, (2) “Socio-economic and racial/ethnic differences in e-cigarette uptake among cigarette smokers: Longitudinal analysis of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study” in Nicotine and Tobacco Research, and (3) “Association between e-cigarette use and cardiovascular disease among never and current combustible-cigarette smokers” in the American Journal of Medicine

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Report on the scientific basis of tobacco product regulation: seventh report of a WHO study group

Published October 2019
World Health Organization Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation

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Presents estimates from a study Dr. Stokes and colleagues published in Tobacco Control entitled “E-cigarette initiation and associated changes in smoking cessation and reduction: the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study, 2013–2015”

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Evaluation of the Adherence Guidelines for Chronic Diseases in South Africa Using Routinely Collected Data: Continuum of Care for Tuberculosis, Hypertension and Diabetes

Published July 2018
South Africa Department of Health and World Bank Group

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Presents estimates from a study Dr. Stokes and colleagues published in PLoS One entitled “Prevalence and unmet need for diabetes care across the care continuum in a national sample of South African adults: Evidence from the SANHANES-1, 2011-2012”

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