Fact Sheets Smoking Cessation This factsheet focuses on tobacco dependency as a recognised medical condition; providing assistance for smoking cessation and tobacco dependency treatment are key tobacco control measures.
Fact Sheets Tobacco and Tuberculosis This factsheet covers the connection between smoking and tuberculosis. Active smoking is significantly associated with TB disease and deaths, while exposure to second-hand smoke is significantly associated with TB disease, and with TB infection among children and young people.
Technical Guides Tobacco Vendor Licensing A key tobacco control measure, tobacco vendor licensing can limit tobacco retailer density around schools, parks, and hospitals
Technical Guides COVID-19 and Tobacco This factsheet provides information on what is presently known about smoking and COVID-19 during various inflection points.
Technical Guides Novel Products, Young People, and Policy Electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products (HTPs) are very different, but both are considered “novel products”. Understanding these products and the differences between them is critical to developing tobacco control policy and countering tobacco industry messaging.
Publications Vital Strategies Brazil launched the Portuguese version of the book “Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity—Research and Public Policy” Vital Strategies Brazil launched the Portuguese version of the book "Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity—Research and Public Policy," originally published by Oxford University Press. Translated by Vital Strategies and published by Dialética, the book is the world's leading reference in the field of alcohol policy.
Publications Mental Health Index: Fortaleza (CE) Experience This document describes the experience of building the Mental Health Index (MHI) in the city of Fortaleza, Brazil and tools to develop intersectoral policies on mental health, with a focus on children and adolescents.
Toolkit Community Engagement Workers Guide Community Engagement Workers [CEW] are a central part of a harm reduction approach that honors the autonomy and experience of people who use drugs with…
Publications Health effects associated with exposure to intimate partner violence against women and childhood sexual abuse: a burden of proof study The authors of this systematic review comprehensively searched seven electronic databases for literature on intimate partner violence-associated and childhood sexual abuse-associated health effects. Following Following he burden of proof methodology in a systematic literature review, the authors of this study evaluated the evidence strength linking intimate partner violence and/or childhood sexual abuse to health outcomes supported by at least three studies.
Campaigns Ethiopia – Road Safety – Esmlealem’s Story Addis Ababa's Traffic Management Authority initiated this mass media campaign to curb speeding.