Engaging health and non-health sectors to advance progress on tobacco control
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Citizen News Service, Health and Communication, India
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Citizen News Service, Policy and Programme, India
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Citizen News Service, Editor, India
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Piles To Smile Clinic, Medical Health, India
Publication date: 2018-03-01
Tob. Induc. Dis. 2018;16(Suppl 1):A633
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Background and challenges to implementation:
Despite towering disease and death burden
attributed to tobacco use, and severe socio-economic implication thwarting progress
on sustainable development, sectors other than tobacco control, seldom join
hands for endgame of tobacco. We aspired to increase engagement of different
health movements and groups as well as non-health groups to advance progress on
tobacco control.
Intervention or response:
Vote For Health campaign hosted by CNS and Asha
Parivar, collaborated with government health agencies such as UP State Tobacco
Control Cell, National Health Mission, National Programme for Prevention and
Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke (NPCDCS),
Mental Health and initiatives of Skills and Entrepreneurship Ministry of
Government of India; and NGOs such as Family Planning Association of India (FPA
India), Hope Initiative, Society for Social Regeneration and Equity, National
Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM), among others, to conduct a series of heath
interventions like Rights and
Responsibilities Trainings Programme, webinars, media dialogues, CSO meetings,
media trainings, and sensitization programme at schools, paramedical institutions,
nursing institutions, hospitals, workers at construction sites, slums and other
public places etc; each month and during specific days such as World No Tobacco
Day, World Health Day, World Heart Day, Word AIDS Day, World Pneumonia Day,
World Tuberculosis Day etc.
Results and lessons learnt:
Over 200 CSOs have extended their support to
tobacco control initiatives facilitated by Vote For Health campaign. Several
people's movements in other South Asian, South East Asian, African nations have
also endorsed tobacco control initiatives hosted by us. We have generated more
the 2000 news clippings in vernacular media reaching out to almost 6 million
population.
Conclusions and key recommendations:
United we stand and divided we fall - there is no
other way to progress on tobacco control and SDGs but collectively.
Partnerships are key to delivering on Agenda 2030.