3420.0 Tobacco Control & Air Quality - Policy & Advocacy Efforts to Promote Healthier Communities

Monday, October 29, 2012: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Oral
This session will provide strategies and best practices utilized to decrease new onset of smoking by youth and to reduce the health impact of secondhand smoke through policies focused on tobacco retail licensing and smoke-free environments.
Session Objectives: Discuss challenges involved in developing smoke-free policies Describe strategies for reducing youth access to tobacco Describe factors impacting a jurisdiction’s implementation of tobacco retail licensing policies
Moderator:
Joy Austin-Lane, DrPH, MA

4:30pm
Evaluating policy and advocacy efforts to address asthma inequities
Dana Hughes, DrPH, MSUP, Lindsay Docto, Jessica Peters, MPH and Anne Kelsey Lamb, MPH
     
4:50pm
Examining the economic impact of a clean indoor air act
John A. Tauras, PhD, Frank J. Chaloupka, PhD, Jennifer D. Keith, MPH, CPH, Deborah Brown, MS, CHES, Joy Blankley Meyer and Gary Klein, PhD
     
5:10pm
Inter-organizational networks in rural smoke-free policy development over time
Ganna Kostygina, PhD, Ellen J. Hahn, PhD, RN and Mary Kay Rayens, PhD
     
5:30pm
Facilitators and barriers to jurisdictions adopting tobacco retail licensing policies
Janie Burkhart, MPH, Nicole Coxe, Travis Smith, Whitney Webber, MS and Bonnie Broderick, MPH, RD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

See more of: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
<< Previous Session | Next Session >>