Toolkits, Reports and Factsheets
Toolkits
Pictorial Health Warnings (PHWs)
Data to action Toolkit
Capacity Assessment Toolkit
Guide for Country Coordination Mechanism (CCM) for Tobacco Control
Reports
HEALTH COST OF TOBACCO USE IN UGANDA
The economic cost of tobacco use is a well-studied issue in the context of high-income countries. It has been measured in only a handful of low and middle-income countries (LMICs). This is partly because the tobacco epidemic is at an early stage in LMICs. Hence, the adverse health consequences of tobacco use are not felt as hard as is in high-income countries. This study aims at estimating the economic cost of tobacco use in Uganda. As a benchmark, the study will make tobacco control communities, including professionals and policy makers, aware of the current harms caused by tobacco use to the economy. Consequently, this would lead them to take appropriate measures to prevent the epidemic.
The study used data from four units in the National Referral Hospital namely; Uganda Cancer Institute, Heart Institute, Diabetic and Chest clinic. A sample of 353 patients was surveyed. The study used the World Health Organization (WHO) Economics of Tobacco Toolkit: Assessment of Economic Costs of Smoking, where the Annual Cost option of the “Cost of Illness Approach” was adopted.
SMOKING OUT LIES
Globally, one person dies every six seconds because of tobacco use. If Left unchecked, tobacco is predicted to kill more than 8 million people globally each year by 2030. Conversely, the 6-leading tobacco companies (Phillip Morris International, British American Tobacco, China National Corporation, Imperial, Altria/Philip Morris USA and Japan Tobacco International) are experiencing tremendous growth, commanding a combined gross pro t of Ksh. 4.41 Trillion (USD 44.1 B), a return greater than the GDP of Norway. Driven by their main objective of pro t maximization, the Tobacco Industry (TI), has sought to manipulate governments to safeguard and expand their markets.
The overall goal of this study was to provide insight into TI activities in Kenya to inform the implementation of tobacco control policies. This was to be achieved by the speci c objectives of the study which were to; (1) document the history of tobacco industry interference in Kenya, (2) create awareness on tobacco industry tactics to policy makers, decision makers and the public and (3) to stimulate action planning and monitoring to reduce tobacco industry interference in public health policy making and implementation in Kenya.
THE KOMPLY SMOKE FREE COLLABORATION PROJECT
This is the first report from a project that was conceptualized and conducted by the KOMPLY Collaboration, an international team of health advocates, clinicians and researchers.The team members were brought together by the World Heart Federation’s Emerging Leaders program that took place in Bangalore India in March 2016. The main goal of the program is to contribute toward improving global cardiovascular health and reduced global cardiovascular disease [1].The program is aligned with the World Health Organization’s “25 x 25” target of reducing the risk of premature (<70 years) mortality from cardiovascular disease and other non-communi- cable diseases by 25% by 2025 [2]. The KOMPLY team was assembled based on a keen interest among the members to reduce the exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke, particularly in vulnerable regions such as Africa.
The Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa (CTCA) is the lead organization for the KOMPLY Collaboration project; however, the group worked in parrtnership with the University of Makerere to carry out the data collection during the initial phases of the project.
Factsheets
