Health Promotion Foundation
Year(s) : 2009, 2008, 2007
Grant Recipient Type : NGO / Nonprofit
Grantor : International Union Against Tobacco and Lung Disease (The Union)/WLF
Project goal : To foster advances in tobacco control in selected Eastern European countries.
Direct Grant : No
The Union
Key achievement to date:
The coalition involved in the enforcement of
smoke-free measures and policies has
broadened.
Objective: This grant supports
MPOWER goals including letter goal P, to
Protect people from tobacco smoke.
Major
accomplishments to date:
- Tobacco control summit held April 2008; 23 countries represented.
- Resolution prepared to guide future collaborations.
- Core coalition created and regular meetings held; initial collaborators and partners identified and contacted, including sanitary inspectorates, public health centers, and NGOs; additional partners identified and information shared. Collaboration with professional bodies, e.g. cardiologists, oncologists.
- Website developed, launched, and regularly updated; newsletters produced, TV and radio interviews conducted and press releases issued on secondhand smoke exposure and smoking bans in public places; press conferences held for e.g., World No Tobacco Day, Great Polish Smokeout.
- Police engaged to enforce existing legislative regulations on smoking in public places.
- Baseline surveys conducted on tobacco smoke pollution and self-reported exposure to tobacco smoke in public places and worksites, and attitudes toward smoke-free policy; all available Polish data on secondhand smoke exposure, tobacco smoke pollution, and public attitudes toward smoke-free policy collected. Data analyzed, research report prepared.
- Advocacy undertaken through tobacco control exhibition in Parliament; special meeting of the Senate Health Committee devoted to discussion of new smoke-free law. Ongoing close collaboration with representatives of the Parliamentary Health Commission.
- Supporting national coalition partners to instigate litigation on behalf of passive smoker lung cancer victim against her employer.
- Meetings held with UK delegations visiting Poland to explore smoke-free best practices.
- Exhibition hosted on smoke-free Poland at Warsaw Youth Palace; prizes awarded to tobacco control advocates.
- Workshop organized for press journalists.
- Polish version drafted of best practice booklet on development of worksite smoke-free policy. Collaboration with the Institute of Occupational Medicine and Chief Sanitary Inspectorate.
- Intervention program developed for smoke-free bars and restaurants; includes negotiations with municipal authorities, employers' organizations and trade unions to enforce smoke-free worksite policies.
- Electronic database developed to track compliance to existing legislation; data collection and analysis ongoing.
- Press conferences held and press releases issued for World No Tobacco Day.
- Campaign launched for smoke-free public transport.
- Negotiations undertaken with holiday resorts to enforce smoke-free policy.
- Collaborative group established and website drafted; collaboration plans revised to focus on engaging health professionals in smoking cessation and tobacco control.
- Baseline surveys conducted on self-reported exposure of adults and children to tobacco smoke and attitudes toward tobacco control policy; additional data collected about tobacco use and related issues in Kazakhstan from peer reviewed journals, GYTS, and other national surveys.
- Website developed and information updated.
- Events planned around World No Tobacco Day and an autumn smoke-out event, using materials adapted from Poland.
- Skills building workshops conducted: smoke-free health professionals; smoke-free public places; supporting cessation.
- Collaborative group created; concept of collaboration and timelines adapted to focus on engaging health professionals in smoking cessation and tobacco control; letter of support from Kyrgyz Ministry of Health received.
- Website drafted; plans for monitoring and evaluation formulated.
- Data collected about tobacco use and related issues in Kyrgyzstan from peer reviewed journals, GYTS, and other surveys.
- Skills building workshops conducted.