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Global tobacco surveillance system data (GTSSData): A new interactive web application
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's, Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) is the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Global Tobacco Surveillance and the technical agency for the Global Tobacco Surveillance System (GTSS).
Methods: In 2012, CDC OSH's Global Tobacco Control Branch released a new interactive Web application, the Global Tobacco Surveillance System Data or GTSSData. GTSSData provides a single access point and consistent approach to view data from four tobacco-related surveys, across 20 key tobacco control measures including WHO's MPOWER package, for over 120 countries.
Results: GTSSData allows the OSH to make timely data and document updates which support countries' capacities to monitor tobacco use, guide national tobacco prevention and control programs, and facilitate comparison of tobacco related data at all levels. GTSS includes data on youth, adults and special populations collected using global standards. GTSS fills a significant data gap on the leading preventable cause of death globally.
Conclusions: In partnership with WHO, CDC, and others the GTSS monitors trends in tobacco prevalence, consumption, attitudes, and actions globally. The new GTSSData web application serves as a critical part of CDC OSH's mission to share information, provide a centralized data resource, and streamline communications among partner organizations and survey countries.
Communication and informatics
Public health or related public policy
Learning Objectives:
Describe the use GTSSData to access key global tobacco control data.
To identify how GTSSData can be used as a model for developing data systems useful for evaluating other chronic disease prevention programs
Keywords: Tobacco Control, Information Systems
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Allison MacNeil is a Health Scientist working in the Policy, Planning, and Coordination Unit of the Office on Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta, Georgia. Allison manages the Office on Smoking and Health's web based STATE System and coordinates the tobacco-related Healthy People objectives. She received her M.P.H. with a concentration in behavioral sciences from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.