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Building blocks for tobacco control : a handbook.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Series:
- Tools for advancing tobacco control in XXIst century.
- Tools for advancing tobacco control in the 21st century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smoking--Prevention.
- Smoking.
- Tobacco use--Prevention.
- Tobacco use.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organization, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This publication aims to provide practical guidance to all those involved in the management of blood programmes. Following an introduction to the blood cold chain management process, seven chapters provide a detailed description of blood bank refrigerators, plasma freezers, platelet agitators, plasma thawing equipment, blood transport boxes and coolants, temperature monitoring devices, as well as other blood cold chain accessories. Each chapter provides WHO minimum performance specifications for the equipment, and selected product information on equipment evaluated by WHO. A specific chapter i
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; 1. Tobacco as a risk factor health social and economic costs; 2. The tobacco industry; 3. Tobacco control interventions: the scientific evidence; 4. The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control; 5. Developing a national plan of action; 6. Establishing effective infrastructure for national tobacco control programme; 7. Training and education; 8. Communication and public awareness to build critical mass; 9. Working with the media; 10. Programming selected tobacco control activities; 11. Legislative and regulatory measures
- 12. Exploring economic measures and funding initiatives13. Countering the tobacco industry; 14. Forming effective partnerships; 15. Monitoring, surveillance, evaluation and reporting; 16. Research and exchange of information
- Notes:
- Editors and primary contributors: Vera Luiza daCosta e Silva, Annette David--P. ix.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-14136-0
- 9786610141364
- 1-4175-7775-4
- 92-4-068014-4
- OCLC:
- 476034936
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