Boise State News January 19, 2021
Doug Myers
Doug Myers, an associate professor in the Department of Community and Environmental Health, published “Cancer rates not explained by smoking: a county-level analysis” last fall in the journal Environmental Health.
Myers and his coauthors from the University of Massachusetts – Polly Hoppin, Molly Jacobs, Richard Clapp and David Kriebel – studied data from 612 counties included in the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program, an authoritative source of information on cancer incidence in the U.S. They found that even if smoking were completely eliminated, many cancers known to be caused by smoking would still occur. While smoking cessation efforts have come a long way in reducing cancer incidence, other environmental causes are important and must be considered when developing cancer prevention programs.
UB School of Economics
Spain has recorded an increase on its number of elderly drivers due to an increase in this population cohort and, as in other countries, it will become more significant over the coming years. According to a recent study co-authored by UB School of Economics researchers Mercedes Ayuso and Miguel Santolino, based on data from 2016 provided by the Dirección General de Tráfico de España (Spanish Traffic Authority), the accident severity and the expected costs of accidents increase when the driver is over the age of 75.
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” has been published in the Journal of Safety Research, 73, 37-46, 2020. The objective of this study was to quantify the probability that the accident is mild, severe or very serious depending on the severity of the injured victims. The results evidenced the link between the most serious accidents and elderly drivers, 75 years or older. “This should not be interpreted as that our elderly drivers drive worse; the