Assessing Community Interventions to Reduce Smoking
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2009
Abstract
Few major, community-based antismoking programs have undergone specific evaluation in developed countries; the number is even lower in developing countries. Yet not all evaluation need be elaborate, expensive, or overly time-consuming. Data on tobacco trade, import and export, taxation, mortality, and morbidity may already exist within government departments and can be used for evaluation. Published information from the tobacco industry may be obtained easily in trade journals and annual reports. Universities and international and overseas national health agencies may offer information, assistance, and expertise. Indirect evaluation of the importance of any particular antismoking intervention can be measured by how strongly the tobacco industry opposes that measure.
- Type
- Special Section: Assessment Of Preventive Technologies
- Information
- International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , Summer 1991 , pp. 345 - 353
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- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991
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