scholarly journals Convergence as public health innovation: a case for tobacco control

2016 ◽  
Vol Volume 3 ◽  
pp. 79-92
Author(s):  
Kimberly Horn ◽  
Maliha Ali ◽  
Laurel Curry ◽  
Kenneth P Tercyak ◽  
Ray Niaura
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Health Innovation

scholarly journals Prevalence of Tobacco Use and Efforts for Tobacco Control in The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heeje Lee ◽  
Minah Kang ◽  
Sangchul Yoon ◽  
Kee B. Park
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Tobacco Use ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
World Health ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Health Campaigns ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
Public Health Campaigns ◽  
Health Organization

Abstract Tobacco use is one of the main public health concerns as it causes multiple diseases. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is one of the 168 signatory countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) member states agreed to adopt the WHO Framework Convention of Tobacco Control (FCTC). However, there is lack of information regarding the tobacco use in the DPRK and the government’s efforts for tobacco control. The aim of the study was to find the prevalence of tobacco use among the DPRK people and the government’s efforts to control tobacco use among its population, through literature review combined with online media content analysis. In 2020, the prevalence of tobacco smoking in males of 15 years and older was 46.1%, whereas that in females was zero. The online media contents showed the DPRK government’s stewardship to promote population health by controlling tobacco use. Furthermore, the DPRK government has taken steps to implement the mandates of the FCTC including introduction of new laws, promotion of research, development of cessation aids, as well as public health campaigns.

scholarly journals Overview on Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act and its implementation: current update

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 463
Author(s):  
Dhwanit Thakore ◽  
Mahesh Chavda ◽  
Girish Parmar ◽  
Tejal Sheth
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Tobacco Use ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Tobacco Products ◽  
Health Goal ◽  
The Status ◽  
Public Health Goal ◽  
Almost All

Tobacco use- a major public health issue in India has an enormous effect on the lower SES population. . There is an evident link between tobacco use or consumption and poverty. The widespread use of almost all forms of tobacco among the Indian population can be attributed to the social and cultural acceptance in the country. Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products Act, 2003 (COTPA) is the legislation that regulates tobacco in India. The prime objective of this review is to compile the literature with information about the laws regulating tobacco use and the status of implementation of tobacco control provisions covered under COTPA. Since effective tobacco control measures involve multi-stakeholders i.e public health, law, trade and commerce, industry, consumer, human rights and child development, coordinated efforts are required to successful enforcement. The outcome of the current literature is bridging the gaps to make the tobacco control a very important public health goal and thereby protect the population from the consequent morbidity and mortality due to tobacco use.

Scaling-up a public health innovation: A comparative study of post-abortion care in Bolivia and Mexico

2007 ◽  
Vol 64 (11) ◽  
pp. 2210-2222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah L. Billings ◽  
Barbara B. Crane ◽  
Janie Benson ◽  
Julie Solo ◽  
Tamara Fetters
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Health Innovation ◽  
Abortion Care ◽  
Post Abortion Care ◽  
Post Abortion

The contemporary self in tobacco control: exploring the introduction of the smoking ban in Ireland

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eluska Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Smoking Ban ◽  
Political Speeches

This chapter is set in the context of the introduction of an outright ban on smoking in the workplace in 2004, an initiative that is widely regarded by Irish politicians, public health and anti-smoking advocates as a story of success, despite ‘common sense’ commentaries at the time suggested that the ban would be too radical a proposal.Drawing on commentaries from broadsheet newspapers and political speeches from the time, this chapter analyses the introduction of the smoking ban in Ireland as a successful exercise in ‘the conduct of conduct’ (Foucault, 1982) by exploring the types of conduct that were embraced and promoted in the context of the debates over the ban. Informed by the centrality of notions of rational, responsible and civilized selfhood in contemporary public health and health promotion discourses, the chapter reveals how notions of what came to be promoted as rational, responsible and civilized behaviours, and their flipside, irrational, irresponsible and uncivilized ones, were central to the exercise of power. It also reflects on how the regulation of smoking became interlinked with social and moral processes, and how some of these played a symbolic role in promoting boundaries between different social groups.

Using Human Rights Law to Progress Alcohol Control

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare SLATTERY
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Alcohol Control ◽  
Relative Success ◽  
The Relationship

Alcohol control has long been recognised as a public health concern. Recent years have also seen increased recognition of the relationship between alcohol control and the human rights agenda. However, fragmentation exists in key global governance instruments over the role alcohol control plays as a human rights priority. The relative success of tobacco control illustrates how utilisation of agendas beyond public health can mobilise action.

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