The Annual Conference of the GNTH International Network – Global Network for Tobacco Free Healthcare Services was held on October 13th. Under the title “Challenges”, and this year in online format, we wanted to give visibility to the recently awarded with the recognition WHO World No Tobacco Day 2021, on the one hand the German […]
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Durant els passat dies 29 i 30 de setembre i 5 i 7 d’octubre s’ha celebrat, de forma telemàtica, el XI Congrés del Congrés del Comitè Nacional per a la Prevenció del Tabaquisme amb el lema “Vulnerabilitat, tabac i nicotina”. La Unitat de Control del Tabac (UCT) de l’ICO ha participat en el comitè científic
Since last May, together with the celebration of World No Tobacco Day, ICO implemented the campaign Allunyem el tabac, promoted by the Catalan Network of Smoke-Free Hospitals (UCT). This campaign aims to move tobacco use away from the hospital entrances with the ultimate goal of reducing the visibility of tobacco, denormalizing tobacco use and raising
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Researchers at the Tobacco Control Unit-University of Barcelona have published results about “knowledge, attitudes, and training in tobacco dependence and cessation treatment” from the ECTEC study at the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. Nursing students are part of the future health labor force; thus, knowing their knowledge and participation in tobacco control is of
Després de l’edició no presencial de l’any passat, el congrés de la Sociedad Española de Epidemiología (SEE) ha aplegat més de 600 persones a la Universitat de Lleó. Entre elles, una quinzena de professionals de la Direcció d’Epidemiologia i Prevenció del Càncer i concretament tres persones de la Unitat de Control del Tabac (UCT) de
We are very pleased that on 16th June 2021, one of our team members, Beladenta Amalia, has successfully presented her doctoral thesis entitled “Environmental and bystanders’ exposure to secondhand aerosols of electronic cigarettes in the European population” at Campus Bellvitge, Universitat de Barcelona. The Dissertation comprises five original papers in leading journals. The Dissertation comprehensively
La Unitat de Control del Tabac de l’ICO ha estat guardonat per l’Organització Mundial de la Salut (OMS) amb un dels Premis del Dia Mundial Sense Tabac 2021, que se celebrarà el proper 31 de maig, per la seva feina i els èxits obtinguts en l’àmbit del control del tabac. De fet, cada any la
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Os anunciamos el cuarto “Tobacco Control Webinar” del ICO/Centro Colaborador de la OMS para el Control del Tabaco. En esta ocasión, y como parte de nuestra celebración del Día Mundial sin Tabaco, presentaremos la versión para América Latina de la “Tobacco Control Scale” (TCS-LA). Desde el CC de la OMS hemos adaptado y pilotado en el continente americano la conocida escala
Yesterday, Monday 8th March, International Women’s Day, our colleague, Ariadna Feliu, read her doctoral thesis in the Hall of Degrees of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Campus Bellvitge. The jury formed by the Professor of Public Health Ildefonso Hernández (Universidad de Alicante), the Dr María José Duaso (King’s College London) and the
Over a thousand students from four European countries will test the first online learning tool aimed at combating smoking, a pandemic that, despite being non-transmissible, causes 8 million deaths worldwide every year and 700,000 in the European Union. The development and testing of this tool are two of the central objectives of the INSTrUCT Project,
