Tobacco control policy : strategies, successes, and setbacks / / edited by Joy de Beyer and Linda Waverley Brigden

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : World Bank, : Research for International Tobacco Control, c2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 189 pages : illustrations ; ; 23 cm
• Disciplina: 362.29/66
• Soggetto topico: Tobacco use - Government policy; Tobacco use - Prevention - Government policy; Tobacco use - Prevention - Evaluation; Smoking - Government policy; Smoking - Prevention - Government policy; Smoking - Prevention - Evaluation
• Altri autori: De BeyerJoy BrigdenLinda Waverley <1946->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Overview / Joy de Beyer and Linda Waverley Brigden -- Building momentum for tobacco control : the case of Bangladesh / Debra Efroymson and Saifuddin Ahmed -- Government leadership in tobacco control : Brazil's experience / Luisa M. da Costa e Silva Goldfarb -- Legislation and applied economics in the pursuit of public health : Canada / David Sweanor and Ken Kyle -- Democracy and health : tobacco control in Poland / Witold Zatonski -- Political change in South Africa : new tobacco control and public health policies / Mia Malan and Rosemary Leaver -- Tailoring tobacco control efforts to the country : the example of Thailand / Prakit Vateesatokit.
• Sommario/riassunto: There are over 1.2 billion tobacco users in the world, most in developing countries. Once a problem primarily in high-income countries, disease and death from tobacco use has increasingly become a burden for developing countries as well. The tobacco epidemic is one of the leading causes of preventable death and disability. However, mitigating the devastating health damage caused by tobacco use is made especially difficult by nicotine's powerfully addictive properties, low prices of tobacco products, and the constant, often subtle reinforcement of social norms and encouragement to smoke through billions of dollars of advertising each year. This work contains the stories of six countries - Brazil, Bangladesh, Canada, Poland, South Africa, and Thailand. These countries, selected to provide global representation, are in different stages of the tobacco epidemic and the strength and history of their tobacco control policies vary considerably. This work relates the strategies, success stories and setbacks in developing tobacco control policies in order to assist people grappling with similar issues in other countries.
• Titolo autorizzato: Tobacco control policy
• ISBN: 1-280-08683-1; 9786610086832
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910966725903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: World Bank e-Library.