We consider both of these measures of population exposure to be useful metrics of a country’s progress towards a healthier working and living environment and wanted to make this call to the public health community. In Scotland, of having a tobacco-free generation by 2034 with less than 5% of the population smoking – and we see the value of having cambodia rcs data transitional targets such as 90% of non-smoking adults with no detectable cotinine by 2022 and 95% by 2030.
We published our results in the BMJ journal ‘Tobacco Control’ and the paper attracted considerable attention worldwide, being picked up by over 40 news outlets and tweeted to a combined following of >40,000 across the globe. We have had discussions with the Scottish Government Tobacco Control Team about the use of these data and we look to the method being incorporated into future reporting of the Scottish Health Survey.
So, much ado about next to nothing? Or an interesting use of existing data to see how it can be best used to check on policy effects and call for further government action in public health? We hope it is the latter and that this blog makes you think before calculating a ‘simple’ Geometric Mean in the future.