4205.0: Tuesday, October 23, 2001: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | ||||
Panel Discussion Session | ||||
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| Spectacularly successful tobacco control programming (relative to youth initiation and use of tobacco products) has been initiated run, then severly restricted in California, Florida, and possibly other locations. The purpose of this session is to look at the political, administrative and organizational (infrastructure) circumstances surrounding these programs--to identify what was necessary for them to begin and to enjoy their spectacular success; to identify what occurred external to the program to then undercut their further efforts; and to identify what lessons we should take from this experience to help guide and secure success in other tobacco-related and other (diet, exercise, etc.) health education programs. Questions to be addressed include the following: 1) What "came together" in these states, and at that point in time that made such programming and such success possible; why not other states--why not five years before? 2) What subsequently occurred that undercut the continuing success of the program--and what steps (if any) could have been taken to head this off--if this problem had been anticipated. 3) What steps, if any, can be taken by CDC and national public health organizations to help enhance state and local "infrastructure" so that truly effective behavior change programs, dealing with tobacco and other issues (diet, exercise, etc.) will be more common, will enjoy great success, and will not be so badly undercut by political or other forces? This session is co-sponsored by the American Association of Public Health Physicians | ||||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives | ||||
| Joel L. Nitzkin, MD, MPH, DPA | ||||
| Cynthia Hallett, MPH Dearell R. Niemeyer, MPH Joseph W. Cherner Stanton Glanz, PhD | ||||
| Introductory Remarks | ||||
| Stanton Glantz, PhD, Professor of Medicine, University of California School of Medicine | ||||
| Joseph W. Cherner, President, SmokeFree Educational Services, Inc. | ||||
| Dearell R. Niemeyer, MPH, Executive Director, National Tobacco Control Training and Technical Assistance Consortium | ||||
| Cynthia Hallett, Executive Director, American Non-Smokers' Rights Foundation | ||||
| Panel Discussion | ||||
| Concluding Remarks | ||||
| Sponsor: | Health Administration | |||
| Cosponsors: | Socialist Caucus | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | |||