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Public Health Advocacy and Tobacco Control: Making Smoking History Paperback – 30 July 2007
Public Health Advocacy and Tobacco Control is divided into two sections. The first contains chapters spanning such key topics as the place of advocacy in tobacco control, ethical issues, smoking cessation and prevention, harm reduction and product regulation and the denormalisation of smoking. The second section provides an invaluable A–Z of tobacco control advocacy strategy from Accuracy to Whistleblowers.
′I was fascinated, educated, and occasionally entertained by this broad and deep "manual" of how to do tobacco control in the 21st century.′
Kenneth E. WarnerDean and Avedis Donabedian Distinguished University ProfessorSchool of Public Health, University of Michigan
′Simon Chapman′s analysis provides the road map of what needs to be done, how it needs to be done and that it needs to be done with a sense of urgency. It is a required reading for all those who want to make a difference in the lives of many, especially our children.′
Jeffrey Wigand, MA, Ph.D., MAT, Sc.D. aka "The Insider"
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- Print length344 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWiley–Blackwell
- Publication date30 July 2007
- Dimensions17.27 x 2.03 x 24.38 cm
- ISBN-101405161639
- ISBN-13978-1405161633
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"This important text explores what needs to be done globally for effective tobacco control in the early decades of the 21st century."
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Public Health Advocacy and Tobacco Control is divided into two sections. The first contains chapters spanning such key topics as the place of advocacy in tobacco control, ethical issues, smoking cessation and prevention, harm reduction and product regulation and the denormalisation of smoking. The second section provides an invaluable A–Z of tobacco control advocacy strategy from Accuracy to Whistleblowers.
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- Publisher : Wiley–Blackwell (30 July 2007)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 344 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1405161639
- ISBN-13 : 978-1405161633
- Dimensions : 17.27 x 2.03 x 24.38 cm
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About the author
Simon Chapman PhD FASSA, is Professor in Public Health at the University of Sydney and a staff elected Fellow of Senate. He has published 406 articles in peer reviewed journals and 18 books and major reports. His Public Health Advocacy and Tobacco Control: Making Smoking History was published by Blackwell (Oxford) in 2007 and Let sleeping dogs lie? What men should know before being tested for prostate cancer. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2010 ISBN 9781920899684 134pp.
In 1997 he won the World Health Organisation's World No Tobacco Day Medal and in 2003 he was voted by his international peers to be awarded the American Cancer Society’s Luther Terry Award for outstanding individual leadership in tobacco control. In 2008 he won the NSW Premier’s Cancer Researcher of the Year medal; the Public Health Association of Australia’s Sidney Sax medal; and was a NSW finalist in Australian of the Year. He was deputy editor (1992-1997) then editor (1998-2008) of the British Medical Journal's, Tobacco Control and is now its commissioning editor for Low and Middle Income Countries.
His current research involves examining policy how health and medical issues are covered in the news media; the implications for tobacco control of web 2.0 technology; and characteristics of public health research (and its dissemination) which impact on public health policy.