Objectives

- 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 industry’s 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.

Description

It presents informations about tobacco and Public Health:
impact on health, impact on the economy, currency tobacco smoking in youth, smoking cessation interventions and exposure to second-hand smoke. The course consists of four modules:
Introduction, Protection, Prevention, and Cessation.

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