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EndTobacco - A Program Linking the WHO MPOWER Framework with the CDC Best Practices for Evidence-based Tobacco Control at Institutional, Local and National Levels
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Over 20 MD Anderson scientists, clinicians, administrative leaders, and public health practitioners leveraged the World Health Organization’s MPOWER framework along with the Centers for Disease Control ‘s (CDC) Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs to recommend evidence-based strategies and specific actions for addressing tobacco use in three areas: policy, education and clinical services, at three levels: within its own institution, local/state and national/international. This initiative calls for an unprecedented and sustained institutional commitment to leadership, investment, and collaboration to advance evidence-based tobacco control. The initiative is called “EndTobacco,” an inspirational and aspirational call to action, perfectly aligned with MD Anderson’s mission of Making Cancer History®.
Forging partnerships across a range of stakeholders is critical to achieving EndTobacco goals of reducing the prevalence of smoking, the proportion of non-smokers exposed to second-hand smoke and increasing cessation attempts by current smokers. A first step is to disseminate the framework, strategies and actions to others who may join with us to EndTobacco.
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Program planningLearning Objectives:
Explain how cancer centers can leverage their resources and expertise to develop a tobacco control plan at multiple levels: institutional, local/regional/state, and national/international.
Discuss how to link the WHO MPOWER framework and CDC Best Practices in Cancer Control in a plan for tobacco control.
List evidence-based tobacco control interventions within the context of the MPOWER framework at multiple levels.
Keyword(s): Tobacco Control
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: In my role as a member of the Cancer Prevention & Control Platform Leadership Team, I co-led the planning and development of the EndTobacco Program at MD Anderson in collaboration with the over 20 faculty leaders in tobacco control and staff members of the EndTobacco Workgroup.
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.