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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
3218.0: Monday, November 11, 2002: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| It is important for states and countries to reduce smoking and tobacco use by establishing a well-funded and sustained comprehensive tobacco control program. The goal of comprehensive tobacco control programs is to reduce disease, disability, and death related to tobacco use. This leads to the fact that states and countries have taken varied approaches to developing, implementing and evaluating comprehensive approaches to reduce tobacco use. Various strategies and differing types of efforts are often incorporated into tobacco control programs based upon the state or countries resources and infrastructure to deliver tobacco control. In addition political, economic, social and cultural factors shape a state or country’s capacity to select the critical mix of efforts use a specific approach changing tobacco use such as, focusing efforts on policy change, cessation, youth prevention, media campaigns, labeling and taxation strategies. Some evidence is available that is demonstrating that comprehensive tobacco control programs can produce reductions in tobacco use. However many challenges exist as to how to evaluate comprehensive tobacco control programs and to determine the facilitating factors that promote comprehensive tobacco control efforts and the barriers that impede this progress. This panel will present perspectives on important components of a comprehensive tobacco control program and provide information on how these programs are being evaluated. | |||
| Learning Objectives: Participants will understand the differing perspectives and approaches taken that constitute comprehensive tobacco control. Participants will understand the various approaches taken to evaluate comprehensive tobacco control. Participants will understand the various factors that influence tobacco control programs and evaluation efforts. | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Frances A. Stillman, EdD | |||
| Introduction: Frances A. Stillman, EdD | |||
| How do we determine the critical mix of tobacco control efforts? Donna Grande | |||
| Assessing large scale tobacco control efforts: What is needed? William Trochim, PhD | |||
| Comparing across states as to their progress to development and implement tobacco policies Jamie F. Chriqui, PhD, MHS | |||
| Strategies, methods and major findings from the California program Jessica R. Schumacher, MS, David Cowling, PhD | |||
| Effectively integrating program components Linda A. Block, MPH, Greg Connolly, DMD, MPH, Mike Maguire, MS, Chuck Wolfe, Susan Heck | |||
| Discussion | |||
| Organized by: | Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs | ||
| Endorsed by: | Epidemiology; Public Health Education and Health Promotion | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | ||