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May 27, 2011
ActionToQuit Grantees Moving Ahead: Michigan
The ActionToQuit State Grantees are working on their year-long projects to implement innovative strategies to increase access to tobacco cessation treatments. Each month the newsletter features an interview with a different grantee to share information about their projects. This interview is with the Michigan grantee.
April 26, 2011
Odds and Ends
-Priority Actions for the Non-Communicable Disease Crisis
-ActionToQuit Grantee Summit in Action
April 26, 2011
Research Notes
-Systems-Level Smoking Cessation Activities by Private Health Plans
-Promoting Tobacco Cessation Via the Workplace: Opportunities for Improvement
April 26, 2011
ActionToQuit Grantees Moving Ahead: Iowa
The ActionToQuit State Grantees are working on their year-long projects to implement innovative strategies to increase access to tobacco cessation treatments. Each month the newsletter features an interview with a different grantee to share information about their activities and progress. The interview this month is with Iowa.
April 26, 2011
NC Prevention Partners Lead in Hospital Cessation Efforts
NC Prevention Partners is a nonprofit organization based in North Carolina that is doing some interesting and successful work in tobacco cessation and other health issues that affect preventable death and disease. Since 1998 NC Prevention Partners has accumulated a list of accomplishments starting with a voluntary insurance reform campaign to have health insurance plans cover preventive health services. They also played a critical role in advocating for dedicated health and wellness funds from North Carolina’s tobacco settlement with the tobacco industry. ActionToQuit recently spoke with Melva Fager Okun, DrPH, Senior Program Manager with NC Prevention Partners. Dr. Okun manages the Healthy NC Hospitals Initiative. She helped North Carolina hospitals develop and implement 100% tobacco-free campus wide policies. North Carolina hospitals led the nation in this initiative. Dr. Fager Okun is currently working with hospital leaders to increase their support for hospital employees and patients to quit the use of tobacco.
April 26, 2011
Tobacco Use Cessation in the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has a long history of attempting to reduce smoking among veterans and has worked very hard to make evidence-based smoking cessation a routine part of the health care it provides. Smoking prevalence among veterans enrolled for outpatient care in 2010 was under 20%, down significantly from a prevalence of about 33% in 1999. Outpatients with co-morbidities in the mental health clinics had a 39% smoking prevalence. This differential is also seen in other populations.
March 28, 2011
Research
-Prevalence of Heavy Smoking in California and the United States, 1965-2007
-A Nationwide Analysis of US Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Smoking Behaviors, Smoking Cessation, and Cessation-Related Factors
-Evaluation of a Nationally Disseminated Self-Help Intervention for Smoking Cessation (‘Quit Kit’)
March 28, 2011
ActionToQuit Grantees Moving Ahead: Georgia
The 2010 ActionToQuit State Grantees have held their summits and are working on implementing their strategies to increase access to tobacco cessation treatments. The 2011 grantees have started work on their projects. Each month the newsletter features an interview with a different grantee to share information about their activities and progress. The interview this month is with Georgia.
March 28, 2011
Office on Smoking and Health Director Sees Opportunities for Advancing Cessation
Last fall a new director took charge of the Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tim McAfee, M.D., M.P.H., joined OSH following a distinguished career in tobacco control as a clinician, researcher, and public health evaluator. He worked for 20 years in population-based and clinical preventive health, with a strong focus on tobacco control. Since 2003, he served as the Chief Medical Officer for Free & Clear, a company providing quitline services to 26 states, as well as many health plans and individuals. He helped found and served on the Board of Directors of the North American Quitline Consortium, as well as numerous state and national tobacco policy advisory groups, and is an adjunct faculty member in the University of Washington School of Public Health.
ActionToQuit recently spoke with Dr. McAfee to learn about his vision for the Office on Smoking and Health and tobacco control in general.
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