Building blocks for tobacco control [[electronic resource] ] : a handbook

• Pubblicazione: Geneva, Switzerland, : World Health Organization, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.29/6
• Soggetto topico: Smoking - Prevention; Tobacco use - Prevention
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: DavidAnnette SilvaVera da Costa e
• Note generali: Editors and primary contributors: Vera Luiza daCosta e Silva, Annette David--P. ix.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminaries; Contents; 1. Tobacco as a risk factor health social and economic costs; 2. The tobacco industry; 3. Tobacco control interventions: the scientific evidence; 4. The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control; 5. Developing a national plan of action; 6. Establishing effective infrastructure for national tobacco control programme; 7. Training and education; 8. Communication and public awareness to build critical mass; 9. Working with the media; 10. Programming selected tobacco control activities; 11. Legislative and regulatory measures ; 12. Exploring economic measures and funding initiatives13. Countering the tobacco industry; 14. Forming effective partnerships; 15. Monitoring, surveillance, evaluation and reporting; 16. Research and exchange of information
• Sommario/riassunto: This publication aims to provide practical guidance to all those involved in the management of blood programmes. Following an introduction to the blood cold chain management process, seven chapters provide a detailed description of blood bank refrigerators, plasma freezers, platelet agitators, plasma thawing equipment, blood transport boxes and coolants, temperature monitoring devices, as well as other blood cold chain accessories. Each chapter provides WHO minimum performance specifications for the equipment, and selected product information on equipment evaluated by WHO. A specific chapter i
• Titolo autorizzato: Building blocks for tobacco control
• ISBN: 1-280-14136-0; 9786610141364; 1-4175-7775-4; 92-4-068014-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450108303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Tools for advancing tobacco control in XXIst century.