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Advocacy Strategies to Address NCDs: Tobacco Control

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This chapter discusses the role that health promotion advocacy has taken in addressing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) through efforts to support tobacco control. The link between tobacco control and NCDs will be established. Health promotion advocacy will be explained in the context of the Ottawa Charter and evolving contemporary health promotion practice. This will be followed by a discussion of the contribution of tobacco control advocacy efforts to addressing NCDs on a global level, particularly through advocacy for full implementation of the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). Some brief case studies are presented to illustrate the practice of health promotion advocacy for tobacco control, and the chapter concludes with a discussion of successes and challenges for health promotion advocacy for tobacco control.

Good health is a major resource for social, economic and personal development and an important dimension of quality of life. Political, economic, social, cultural, environmental, behavioral and biological factors can all favor health or be harmful to it. Health promotion action aims at making these conditions favorable through advocacy for health. Ottawa Charter (WHO 1986).

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Sparks, M. (2013). Advocacy Strategies to Address NCDs: Tobacco Control. In: McQueen, D. (eds) Global Handbook on Noncommunicable Diseases and Health Promotion. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7594-1_19

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