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According to WHO, the tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced, killing nearly six million people a year. Approximately one person dies every six seconds due to tobacco, accounting for one in 10 adult deaths. In the recent report, WHO ‘accepts’ that e-cigarettes might help people on their attempts to quit smoking and they may be able to downsize the negative effects of smoking.
By Apostolos Vardangalos, Global Health Minders’ intern
What do public health and medical students know about global health? And what do they learn about it during their studies? Read what intern Malene Beck Andersen found out by interviewing 17 graduate students – 12 medical students and five public health students – from the University of Southern Denmark.
By Malene Beck Andersen, Public Health Student, SDU
Text by Kirsten Larsen