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derek yach
Can we leave industry to lead efforts to improve population health? Yes.
derek yach; Jonathan Dugas
Evidence-based wellness programs.
George Mensah; derek yach; Mehmood Khan
Industry response to the obesity threat.

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2013: derek yach
Can we leave industry to lead efforts to improve population health? Yes.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2013;346():f2279.
2013: derek yach; Jonathan Dugas
Evidence-based wellness programs.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2013;32(1):193.
2011: George Mensah; derek yach; Mehmood Khan
Industry response to the obesity threat.
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2011;305(4):361-2; author reply 362.
2011: derek yach
Nutritional change is not a simple answer to non-communicable diseases.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2011;343():d5097.
2011: Eleanore Alexander; derek yach; George Mensah
Major multinational food and beverage companies and informal sector contributions to global food consumption: implications for nutrition policy.
Globalization and health 2011;7():26.
2010: derek yach
From Framingham to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
Progress in cardiovascular diseases 2010;53(1):52-4.
2010: derek yach; Zoë A Feldman; Dondeena G Bradley; Mehmood Khan
Can the food industry help tackle the growing global burden of undernutrition?
American journal of public health 2010;100(6):974-80.
2010: Sandeep P Kishore; Asaf Bitton; Alejandro Cravioto; derek yach
Enabling access to new WHO essential medicines: the case for nicotine replacement therapies.
Globalization and health 2010;6():22.
2010: derek yach; Mehmood Khan; Dondeena Bradley; Rob Hargrove; Stephen Kehoe; George Mensah
The role and challenges of the food industry in addressing chronic disease.
Globalization and health 2010;6():10.
2009: Rachel A Nugent; derek yach; Andrea B Feigl
Non-communicable diseases and the Paris Declaration.
Lancet 2009;374(9692):784-5.
2009: Jon F Kerner; Eduardo Cazap; derek yach; Marco A Pierotti; Maria Grazia Daidone; Pasquale de Blasio; Peter Geary; Brent Schacter; Milena Sant; J Dik F Habbema; Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan; Catherine Sutcliffe; Simon Sutcliffe
Comprehensive cancer control-research & development: knowing what we do and doing what we know.
Tumori 2009;95(5):610-22.
2009: derek yach
PepsiCo marketing policy.
Public health nutrition 2009;12(7):1024-5.
2009: derek yach; Zoë A Feldman
Undernutrition: problems and solutions.
Public health nutrition 2009;12(5):735-6.
2008: P Boyle; B O Anderson; L C Andersson; Y Ariyaratne; G-R Auleley; Mariano Barbacid; H Bartelink; J Baselga; K Behbehani; F Belardelli; A Berns; J Bishop; O Brawley; H Burns; M Clanton; B Cox; david currow; J-M Dangou; D de Valeriola; Satish Munnolli; A Eggermont; J Fitzpatrick; M Forstmane; E Garaci; A T Gavin; T Kakizoe; M Kasler; N Keita; D Kerr; D Khayat; S Khleif; T Khuhaprema; T Knezevic; R Kubinova; M Mallath; J Martin-Moreno; D McCance; J G McVie; A Merriman; T Ngoma; M Nowacki; J Orgelbrand; J-G Park; M Pierotti; L P Ashton; P Puska; C V R Escobar; B Rajan; THANGARAJAN RAJKUMAR; U Ringborg; C Robertson; A Rodger; L Roovali; L A Santini; M Sarhan; J Seffrin; V Semiglazov; B M Shrestha; K C Soo; V Stamenic; C Tamblyn; R Thomas; M Tuncer; T Tursz; R Vaitkiene; C Vallejos; U Veronesi; A Wojtyla; derek yach; K-Y Yoo; W Zatonski; D Zaridze; Y-X Zeng; P Zhao; Tao Zheng
Need for global action for cancer control.
Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology / ESMO 2008;19(9):1519-21.
2008: Helena Leurent; K Srinath Reddy; Janet Voûte; derek yach
Wellness in the workplace: a multi-stakeholder health-promoting initiative of the World Economic Forum.
American journal of health promotion : AJHP 2008;22(6):379-80, ii.
2008: derek yach
Food companies and nutrition for better health.
Public health nutrition 2008;11(2):109-11.
2008: derek yach
The role of business in addressing the long-term implications of the current food crisis.
Globalization and health 2008;4():12.
2007: derek yach; Antonio Lucio; Carlos Barroso
Can food and beverage companies help improve population health? Some insights from PepsiCo.
The Medical journal of Australia 2007;187(11-12):656-7.
2007: Abdallah S Daar; Peter A Singer; Deepa Leah Persad; Stig K Pramming; David R Matthews; Robert Beaglehole; Alan Bernstein; Leszek K Borysiewicz; Stephen Colagiuri; Nirmal Ganguly; Roger I Glass; Diane T Finegood; Jeffrey P Koplan; Elizabeth G Nabel; George Sarna; Nizal Sarrafzadegan; Richard Smith; derek yach; John Bell
Grand challenges in chronic non-communicable diseases.
Nature 2007;450(7169):494-6.
2007: Charles Gardner; Tara Acharya; derek yach
Technological and social innovation: a unifying new paradigm for global health.
Health affairs (Project Hope) 2007;26(4):1052-61.
2007: Linda Richter; Shane Norris; John M Pettifor; derek yach; Noël Cameron
Cohort Profile: Mandela's children: the 1990 Birth to Twenty study in South Africa.
International journal of epidemiology 2007;36(3):504-11.
2006: Lois Quam; Richard Smith; derek yach
Rising to the global challenge of the chronic disease epidemic.
Lancet 2006;368(9543):1221-3.
2006: Ruth Colagiuri; Stephen Colagiuri; derek yach; Stig Pramming
The answer to diabetes prevention: science, surgery, service delivery, or social policy?
American journal of public health 2006;96(9):1562-9.
2006: derek yach; Heather Wipfli
A century of smoke.
Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology 2006;100(5-6):465-79.
2006: Krisela Steyn; Thea De Wet; Yussuf Saloojee; Hannelie Nel; derek yach
The influence of maternal cigarette smoking, snuff use and passive smoking on pregnancy outcomes: the Birth To Ten Study.
Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology 2006;20(2):90-9.
2006: Jonathan M Samet; Heather Wipfli; Rogelio Perez-Padilla; derek yach
Mexico and the tobacco industry: doing the wrong thing for the right reason?
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2006;332(7537):353-4.
2006: derek yach
Cochrane column: commentary: interventions for preventing tobacco sales to minors.
International journal of epidemiology 2006;35(1):32.
2006: Abdallah Bchir; Zulfiqar A Bhutta; Fred Binka; Robert E Black; Debbie Bradshaw; Geoff P Garnett; Kenji Hayashi; Prabhat Jha; Richard Peto; Cheryl Sawyer; Bernhard Schwartländer; PAT WALKER; Michael Wolfson; derek yach; Basia Zaba
Better health statistics are possible.
Lancet 2006;367(9506):190-3.
2006: Kelly D Brownell; derek yach
Lessons from a small country about the global obesity crisis.
Globalization and health 2006;2():11.
2006: derek yach; David Stuckler; Kelly D Brownell
Epidemiologic and economic consequences of the global epidemics of obesity and diabetes.
Nature medicine 2006;12(1):62-6.
2005: derek yach; T Eloff; Hester H Vorster; Barrie Margetts
Report of a pre ICN workshop on negotiating the future of nutrition, Johannesburg, South Africa, 18 September 2005.
Public health nutrition 2005;8(8):1229-30.
2005: derek yach
Injecting greater urgency into global tobacco control.
Tobacco control 2005;14(3):145-8.
2005: Jennifer Prah Ruger; derek yach
Global functions at the World Health Organization.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2005;330(7500):1099-100.
2005: derek yach; Marissa Kellogg; Janet Voute
Chronic diseases: an increasing challenge in developing countries.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2005;99(5):321-4.
2005: derek yach; Martin McKee; Alan D Lopez; Tom Novotny
Improving diet and physical activity: 12 lessons from controlling tobacco smoking.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2005;330(7496):898-900.
2005: derek yach; Norbert Hirschhorn
The global fight for smoke-free public places.
Journal of public health policy 2005;26(1):90-5.
2005: Jodie Doyle; Elizabeth Waters; derek yach; D McQueen; A De Francisco; T Stewart; P Reddy; Metin Gulmezoglu; Gauden Galea; A Portela
Global priority setting for Cochrane systematic reviews of health promotion and public health research.
Journal of epidemiology and community health 2005;59(3):193-7.
2005: derek yach; Stephen R Leeder; John Bell; Barry Kistnasamy
Global chronic diseases.
Science (New York, N.Y.) 2005;307(5708):317.
2005: derek yach
Tobacco control in Finland and Switzerland: opportunities to learn about overcoming resistance to change.
Sozial- und Präventivmedizin 2005;50(6):337-8.
2004: Heather Wipfli; Frances A Stillman; STEPHEN TAMPLIN; V Luiza da Costa e Silva; derek yach; Jonathan M Samet
Achieving the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control's potential by investing in national capacity.
Tobacco control 2004;13(4):433-7.
2004: derek yach; Corinna Hawkes; C Linn Gould; Karen J Hofman
The global burden of chronic diseases: overcoming impediments to prevention and control.
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2004;291(21):2616-22.
2003: Eduardo Sabaté; derek yach
Screening for coronary calcification.
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2003;290(12):1576; author reply 1577.
2003: Robert Beaglehole; derek yach
Globalisation and the prevention and control of non-communicable disease: the neglected chronic diseases of adults.
Lancet 2003;362(9387):903-8.
2003: JoAnne E Epping-Jordan; Rafael Bengoa; derek yach
Chronic conditions--the new health challenge.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 2003;93(8):585-90.
2003: Shanthi Mendis; derek yach; Rafael Bengoa; D Narvaez; X Zhang
Research gap in cardiovascular disease in developing countries.
Lancet 2003;361(9376):2246-7.
2003: derek yach
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
Lancet 2003;361(9357):611-2.
2003: derek yach; Corinna Hawkes; JoAnne E Epping-Jordan; Sarah Galbraith
The World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: implications for global epidemics of food-related deaths and disease.
Journal of public health policy 2003;24(3-4):274-90.
2003: derek yach
Tobacco consumption in India.
Journal of public health policy 2003;24(3-4):246-50.
2003: derek yach
Comment on the obesity issue.
Sozial- und Präventivmedizin 2003;48(6):336.
2002: derek yach
Unleashing the power of prevention to achieve global health-gains.
Lancet 2002;360(9343):1343-4.
2002: Ruth Bonita; derek yach
Broadening the focus of epidemiology and public health training.
American journal of public health 2002;92(11):1706; author reply 1706-7.
2002: Yasmin von Schirnding; derek yach
Unhealthy consumption threatens sustainable development.
Revista de saúde pública 2002;36(4):379-82.
2002: Anthony B Zwi; derek yach
International health in the 21st century: trends and challenges.
Social science & medicine (1982) 2002;54(11):1615-20.
2002: Prabhat Jha; M Kent Ranson; Son Nam Nguyen; derek yach
Estimates of global and regional smoking prevalence in 1995, by age and sex.
American journal of public health 2002;92(6):1002-6.
2002: G Emmanuel Guindon; S Tobin; derek yach
Trends and affordability of cigarette prices: ample room for tax increases and related health gains.
Tobacco control 2002;11(1):35-43.
2002: Shanthi Mendis; derek yach; Ala' Alwan
Air travel and venous thromboembolism.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2002;80(5):403-6.
2001: derek yach
Economics and public health--reflections from the past and challenges for the future.
Scandinavian journal of public health 2001;29(4):241-4.
2001: P Jha; Philip Musgrove; Frank J Chaloupka; derek yach
Story on smoking and poor people is incomplete.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2001;323(7320):1070-1.
2001: derek yach; S A Bialous
Junking science to promote tobacco.
American journal of public health 2001;91(11):1745-8.
2001: S A Bialous; derek yach
Whose standard is it, anyway? How the tobacco industry determines the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards for tobacco and tobacco products.
Tobacco control 2001;10(2):96-104.
2001: derek yach
Tobacco control: from concern for the lung to global political action.
Thorax 2001;56(4):247-8.
2000: derek yach
Partnering for better lung health: improving tobacco and tuberculosis control.
The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2000;4(8):693-7.
2000: derek yach; Douglas W Bettcher
Globalisation of tobacco industry influence and new global responses.
Tobacco control 2000;9(2):206-16.
2000: Charles W Warren; L Riley; Samira Asma; Michael P Eriksen; L Green; Curtis J Blanton; C Loo; S Batchelor; derek yach
Tobacco use by youth: a surveillance report from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey project.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2000;78(7):868-76.
2000: N Kaufman; derek yach
Tobacco control--challenges and prospects.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2000;78(7):867.
2000: Douglas W Bettcher; derek yach; G Emmanuel Guindon
Global trade and health: key linkages and future challenges.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2000;78(4):521-34.
1999: derek yach; B J Ferguson
Can we stop children and adolescents from smoking?
Social science & medicine (1982) 1999;48(6):757-8.
1999: derek yach; E LeGresley
White paper on tobacco takes a laudable stance.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 1999;318(7183):604.
1998: Freddy Sitas; R Pacella-Norman; R Peto; R Collins; Debbie Bradshaw; I Kleinschmidt; D Kielkowski; Yussuf Saloojee; derek yach; A Lopez; S Bah
Why do we need a large study on tobacco-attributed mortality in South Africa?
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 1998;88(8):925-6.
1998: derek yach; M Skov Jensen; A Norris; T Evans
Promoting equity in health.
Promotion & education 1998;5(2):7-13, 43.
1998: derek yach; Douglas W Bettcher
The globalization of public health, II: The convergence of self-interest and altruism.
American journal of public health 1998;88(5):738-41; discussion 742-4.
1998: derek yach; Douglas W Bettcher
The globalization of public health, I: Threats and opportunities.
American journal of public health 1998;88(5):735-8; discussion 742-4.
1998: derek yach
Addressing Africa's health needs--time for strong South African involvement.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 1998;88(2):127-9.
1998: Jonathan M Samet; C E Taylor; K M Becker; derek yach
Research in support of tobacco control.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 1998;316(7128):321.
1998: Jonathan M Samet; derek yach; C Taylor; K Becker
Research for effective global tobacco control in the 21st century: report of a working group convened during the 10th World Conference on Tobacco or Health.
Tobacco control 1998;7(1):72-7.
1998: A L'hirondel; derek yach
Develop and strengthen public health law.
World health statistics quarterly. Rapport trimestriel de statistiques sanitaires mondiales 1998;51(1):79-87.
1998: L B Lerer; A D Lopez; T Kjellstrom; derek yach
Health for all: analyzing health status and determinants.
World health statistics quarterly. Rapport trimestriel de statistiques sanitaires mondiales 1998;51(1):7-20.
1998: F S Antezana; C M Chollat-Traquet; derek yach
Health for all in the 21st century.
World health statistics quarterly. Rapport trimestriel de statistiques sanitaires mondiales 1998;51(1):3-6.
1997: Krisela Steyn; derek yach; I Stander; Jean M Fourie
Smoking in urban pregnant women in South Africa.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 1997;87(4):460-3.
1997: derek yach
'Health-for-All' in the twenty-first century: a global perspective.
The National medical journal of India 1997;10(2):82-9.
1996: P Reddy; A Meyer-Weitz; derek yach
Smoking status, knowledge of health effects and attitudes towards tobacco control in South Africa.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 1996;86(11):1389-93.
1996: P Bekker; M Howell; J Nkuchia; derek yach; D Hobbs; R Maapola; J R Masetle; T Morodi; D K Naidoo; Y E von Schirnding; N Jongilanga; Y Saloojee
Sales of cigarettes to minors in the greater Johannesburg metropolitan area.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 1996;86(8):980.
1996: derek yach; J Mackay
Tobacco control from a global and national perspective.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 1996;86(8):931-3.
1996: derek yach
Renewal of the health-for-all strategy.
World health forum 1996;17(4):321-6; discussion 327-49.
1996: derek yach
Tobacco in Africa.
World health forum 1996;17(1):29-36.
1995: derek yach; Charles Parry; S Harrison
Prospects for substance abuse control in South Africa.
Addiction (Abingdon, England) 1995;90(10):1293-6.
1995: G Wolvaardt; derek yach
Highlights of the World Health Assembly, Geneva, 1995.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 1995;85(8):747-8.
1995: derek yach
Tobacco control in the new South Africa: new government, same industry tactics.
Promotion & education 1995;2(1):18-22, 58.
1995: Linda M Richter; derek yach; N Cameron; R D Griesel; Thea De Wet
Enrolment into Birth to Ten (BTT): population and sample characteristics.
Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology 1995;9(1):109-20.
1994: Krisela Steyn; Lesley T Bourne; Pieter L Jooste; Jean M Fourie; Carl Lombard; derek yach
Smoking in the black community of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa.
East African medical journal 1994;71(12):784-9.
1994: derek yach; G Paterson
Tobacco advertising in South Africa with specific reference to magazines.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 1994;84(12):838-41.
1994: derek yach; Y Saloojee
Prevent sports sponsorship by the tobacco industry.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 1994;84(12):823-6.
1994: derek yach
Paraffin poisoning. Partnership the key to prevention.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 1994;84(11):717-8.
1994: derek yach
Tobacco excise tax and children.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 1994;84(8 Pt 1):507.
1994: M Galloway; derek yach
Fifty years of nutrition research--past work contains the key to future strategies.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 1994;84(7):382-7.
1994: derek yach
Towards health for all South Africans.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 1994;84(5):250-3.
1994: derek yach
Health status and its determinants in South Africa.
Africa health 1994;(Spec No):5-8.
1994: C A Metcalf; derek yach; Z J de Beer
Missed opportunities for immunisation at hospitals in the western Cape--a reappraisal.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 1994;84(3):149-52.
1994: Freddy Sitas; Merrick Zwarenstein; derek yach; Debbie Bradshaw
A national sentinel surveillance network for the measurement of ill-health in South Africa. A prerequisite for epidemiological research and health planning.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 1994;84(2):91-4.
1994: S Chapman; derek yach; Y Saloojee; D Simpson
All Africa conference on tobacco control.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 1994;308(6922):189-91.
1994: derek yach
Beware of voluntary agreements with the tobacco industry.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 1994;84(1):6.
1994: derek yach; Y E von Schirnding
Towards a higher priority for health on the development agenda.
Public health reviews 1994;22(3-4):339-74.
1993: JM Katzenellenbogen; derek yach; R E Dorrington
Mortality in a rural South African mission, 1837-1909: an historical cohort study using church records.
International journal of epidemiology 1993;22(6):965-75.
1993: derek yach
South Africa's health service.
Lancet 1993;342(8868):441-2.
1993: derek yach; S M Tollman
Public health initiatives in South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s: lessons for a post-apartheid era.
American journal of public health 1993;83(7):1043-50.
1993: derek yach
Adolescent health in South Africa--urgent action needed.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 1993;83(7):461-2.
1993: G Martin; derek yach; K Steyn
Determinants of public opinion about tobacco tax increases.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 1993;83(5):359-60.
1992: Charles Parry; derek yach; S M Tollman
The setting of health research priorities in a new South Africa.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 1992;82(5):306-8.
1992: Charles Parry; derek yach; S M Tollman
Towards an essential national health research strategy for South Africa.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 1992;82(5):299-300.
1992: G Martin; K Steyn; derek yach
Beliefs about smoking and health and attitudes toward tobacco control measures.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 1992;82(4):241-5.
1992: derek yach
The Columbus quincentenary--500 years of expanding tobacco addiction.
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 1992;82(4):224-5.
1992: derek yach
The use and value of qualitative methods in health research in developing countries.
Social science & medicine (1982) 1992;35(4):603-12.