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The Stanford Global Tobacco Free Research Initiative; GTRI Colloquium Series 2007-2008; The International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project: Evaluating the Impact of the FCTCApr 10, 2008 (Thu) | 4:00 PM -6:00 PM
Anthropology, Building 50, Room 51A (inner Quad, next to Memorial Church)
: Stanford, CA
The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the first-ever health treaty, holds great potential in reducing the threat that tobacco use poses to global health. But fulfilling the potential will depend on whether the policies actually implemented in the name of the FCTC are effective. There is thus an urgent need for evidence to support strong implementation of the FCTC, and evidence from rigorous evaluation of ongoing implementation of FCTC policies will help meet this need. The International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (the ITC Project) was created to conduct rigorous evaluation of the psychosocial and behavioural impact of FCTC policies. To date, 15 countries, inhabited by over half of the world’s smokers, are participating in the ITC Project: Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, China, New Zealand, Mexico, Uruguay, France, Germany, Netherlands, with ITC Surveys being developed in Bangladesh, Sudan, and India. In each country, prospective cohort surveys are being conducted among adult smokers, thus allowing policy evaluation to be conducted at the level of the individual. The ITC Survey questions are designed to be identical or functionally equivalent in every country, thus providing strong potential for cross-country comparisons. The survey measures many aspects of smoking behavior and the psychosocial predictors of smoking and quitting, and includes measures of the demand reduction policies of the FCTC (e.g., warning labels, advertising/promotion, price/taxation, smoke-free, cessation). This presentation will briefly describe the underlying model of the ITC Project and will present past and current findings. Of particular focus will be the findings from the ITC China Project, which consists of parallel cohort surveys in 7 Chinese cities. Department: Stanford Prevention Research Center Contact: Susan Ayres | 723-6145 | susan.ayres@stanford.edu Presenter(s):
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