Potential health impact of strong tobacco control policies in 11 South Eastern WHO European Region countries
| Autor: | David T. Levy, Zhe Yuan, Kristina Mauer-Stender, Trudy M A Wijnhoven, Jeffrey Levy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male Croatia WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Slovenia Health impact Smoking Prevention 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Cause of Death Prevalence Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Excise Israel Bulgaria Enforcement Socioeconomics Montenegro Aged Aged 80 and over Bosnia and Herzegovina 030505 public health Romania Health Policy Population size Smoking Tobacco control Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Middle Aged Moldova Geography Albania Female 0305 other medical science Serbia South eastern |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Public Health. 28:693-701 |
| ISSN: | 1464-360X 1101-1262 |
| Popis: | Background While some WHO European Region countries are global tobacco control leaders, the South Eastern region of Europe has the highest tobacco smoking prevalence globally and a relatively low level of overall implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). An abridged version of SimSmoke has been developed to project the health impact of implementing tobacco control policies in line with the WHO FCTC. Methods Data on population size, smoking prevalence, policy-specific effect sizes and formulas were applied in 11 South Eastern WHO European Region countries [Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska), Bulgaria, Croatia, Israel, Montenegro, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia] to project the relative reduction in smoking prevalence, number of smokers and number of smoking-attributable deaths resulting from implementing individual and/or combined six WHO FCTC measures. Results For all countries, an increase in excise cigarette taxes to 75% of price yields the largest relative reduction in smoking prevalence (range 8-28%). The projections show that within 15 years smoking prevalence can be reduced by at least 30% in all countries when all six tobacco control measures are fully implemented in line with the WHO FCTC. Conclusion The projections show that large health effects can be achieved and the results can be used as an advocacy tool towards acceleration of the enforcement of tobacco control laws in WHO European Region countries. |
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