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Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 8:30 AM
Main Auditorium
Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control 2007: Overview of Update
Terry Pechacek, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, tpechacek@cdc.gov, Robert B. Wallace, MD, The University of Iowa, Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, robert-wallace@uiowa.edu. Learning Objectives: Describe the recommended revised components and funding ranges of a comprehensive state tobacco control program.
Methods: Since the release of Best Practices in 1999, evidence in support of the efficacy of comprehensive tobacco control programs has continued to accumulate. In addition, there is greater knowledge about the effectiveness of specific interventions.
An evaluation of the implementation of Best Practices found that this document provided a good framework for planning tobacco control programs, but the number categories was somewhat cumbersome to implement and convey easily to decision makers. Further, funding recommendations warranted reevaluation to adjust for changes in the population and cost of living. Based on this review as well as additional evidence, CDC/OSH has updated the 1999 recommendations.
Results: In 2007 an update to the guidance document Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs was released.
Conclusions: This session is intended to provide a summary of the evidence base that informed changes to Best Practices, plus an overview of the updated guidelines, which now include three major intervention categories: Community Interventions; Cessation; and Media, as well as infrastructure categories of Surveillance and Evaluation and Administration and Management.
The speaker will also share information about forthcoming literature that will supplement the guideline to assist States in applying these guidelines to their tobacco control programs.