- The process through which youth star smoking and become regular smokers;
- The different factors that encourage youth to experiment with tobacco and to continue to use it;
- Marketing techiques that influence smoking, such as advertising, sponsorship, and princing policies;
- The main prevention interventions adopted in recent decades and research on their effectiveness;
- The specific prevention interventions adopted in some countries in the Region through legislation, community programs, and health promotion campaigns.
- La importancia de la cesación tabáquica en los programas integrales de control del tabaquismo;
- Cómo repercuten la adicción a la nicotina, la genética, el comportamiento y los determinantes sociales en le complejo proceso de abandono del tabaquismo;
- Métodos poblacionales dirigidos a influir en el abandono del consumo a escala social, como los impuestos a promoción de la cesación de acuerdo a características de los fumadores, como edad y grupos especiales;
- Tácticas y estrategias de oposición de la industria tabacalera ante las estrategias de cesación del consumo de tabaco;
- Nuevas orientaciones en materia de cesación, incluindo el análisis de la reducción de daños.
- The importance of smoking cessation measures in comprehensive smoking control programs;
- The effects of nicotine addiction, genetics, behavior, and social determinants on the complex process of smoking cessation;
- Population-wide methods to influence smokign cessation on a societal scale, such as tobacco taxes and cigarette package warnings;
- Non-pharmacological and pharmacological methods for helping smokers quit. Cessation promotion initiatives based on smoker characteristics, such as age and special groups;
- Tactics and strategies used by the tobacco industry to oppose smoking cessation strategies;
- New guidelines for smoking cessation, including an analysis of harm reduction.
- Ensure smooth introduction of the rotavirus vaccine;
- Assist with planning for program sustainability;
- Promote further strengthening of existing immunization programs.
- Understand characteristics of rotavirus;
- Identify who is at risk for rotavirus;
- Describe how rotavirus spreads;
- Recognize different patterns of disease transmission;
- Recognize the importance of rotavirus as a public health problem;
- Describe practical methods for collecting surveillance data;
- Understand how surveillance data guide decisions related to rotavirus vaccine introduction.
- Recognize the main types of rotavirus vaccines;
- Understand the history of rotavirus vaccines and intussusception;
- Estimate the potential impact of rotavirus vaccine introduction in your country.
- Understand the different methods for evaluating the economics of health interventions, such as introducing a new vaccine;
- Understand how to use a cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) to measure the costs and benefits of introducing a rotavirus vaccine;
- Identify the main drivers of CEA for a rotavirus vaccine;
- Conduct a cost analysis for introducing a rotavirus vaccine.
- Define the rationale for advocacy on rotavirus vaccines;
- Prepare tools for spreading advocacy messages;
- Identify different audiences for outreach;
- Plan for crisis communications.
- Monitor the reach of the rotavirus immunization program through recording immunization coverage.
- Evaluate the impact of the rotavirus immunization program through monitoring disease incidence.
