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ICO is implementing the campaign Allunyem el tabac (Move tobacco far away)

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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New article from the ECTEC study at the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction.

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

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La Unitat de Control del Tabac participa a la Reunión Anual de la Sociedad Española de Epidemiología

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

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Another new Doctor from the Tobacco Control Unit: Beladenta Amalia has defended her PhD thesis

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

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El progreso del control del tabaco en América Latina: Resultados de la primera edición de la “Tobacco Control Scale” en las Américas

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

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Ph.D. thesis lecture by Ariadna Feliu: “Evaluation of tobacco control policy implementation in European and Latin American countries”

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

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ICO leads a European educational project that enables students in Health Sciences in Europe to learn how to offer support for smoking cessation

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,

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Training session online: Brief Intervention Course on Tobacco Cessation

Are you a Health Science Degree Lecturer/Instructor in one of our Universities? Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat de Lleida, Universidad de Navarra, Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra, King’s College London, Université Libre de Bruxelles, and Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel. Join us! Next 15th – 16th December, the INSTrUCT consortium will hold an online training session about

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Impacto de la pandemia de COVID-19 en el control del tabaco a escala global. Jueves, 16 de julio 2020, 16:00 – 17:15 h (CEST)

Es un placer anunciar el tercer “Tobacco Control Webinar” del ICO/Centro Colaborador de la OMS para el Control del Tabaco. En esta ocasión, abordaremos con tres ponentes excepcionales la influencia de la pandemia de COVID-19 en diversos aspectos del control del tabaco a nivel global. El Webinar es gratuito. Para participar se debe hacer el

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