- Describe and analyze the issue of smoking and exposure to second-hand smoke at the global and regional level;
- Disseminate tobacco control measures contained in the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control;
- Analyze the factors that influence smoking uptake and persistence among young people;
- Describe the strategies and characteristics of smoking cessation, at the individual and population level;
- Describe the tobacco industrys opposition strategies and provide tools for analyzing and responding to industry actions;
- Present the most successful interventions and their implementation in the Region of the Americas;
- Integrate knowledge about challenges and trends to comprehensive tobacco control.
- Describe and analyze the issue of smoking and exposure to second-hand smoke at the global and regional level;
- Disseminate information about tobacco control measures contained in the WHO FCTC;
- Analyze the factors that influence smoking uptake and persistence among young people;
- Describe the strategies and characteristics of smoking cessation, at the individual and population level;
- Describe the tobacco industry's opposition strategies and provide tools for analyzing and responding to industry actions;
- Present the most sucessful interventions and their implementation in the Region of the Americas;
- Integrate knowledge about challenges and trends related to comprehensive tobacco control.
- Explain the concept of second-hand smoke;
- Describe the available scientific evidence on the harmful health effects of second-hand smoke;
- Define the characteristics and advantages of 100% smoke-free environments;
- Learn to recognize the tobacco industry's efforts to halt initiatives that seek to creat 100% smoke-free environments;
- Share ideas in order to neutralize the strategies of the tobacco industry;
- Explore new ways of devising initiatives to create 100% smoke-free environments;
- Analyze problematic situations;
- Discuss new trends in protection from exposure to second-hand smoke.
- Map the range of mechanisms which the England, Scotland and Wales Government uses to consider longterm issues, and considers the ways in which Parliament and the public are engaged in the
process.
- Identify the basic elements of science based policy
- Establish the relationship between science and policies for evidence-based publich health policy and practice