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Preventive Care: Controversies, Challenges And Upcoming Changes In Guidelines, Randa Sifri, Md

Department of Family & Community Medicine Presentations and Grand Rounds

Objectives

• Organizations who make guidelines
• Current guidelines for average-risk adults, with a focus on guidelines with differing recommendations and challenges to implementation/operational issues
• Preview of upcoming changes in guidelines
• Cases to illustrate some of the common questions that come up in delivering office-based preventive care
• Some disclaimers

Today's Cigarette And E-Cigarette Landscape, Richard C. Wender, Md

Department of Family & Community Medicine Presentations and Grand Rounds

E-cigarettes are one of the most difficult and complex public health issues most of us have confronted.

Most anti-tobacco experts and advocates line up on a spectrum from embracing e-cigarettes as a promising way to reduce the harm of tobacco products all the way to being the greatest threat to progress in our 60 year war on big tobacco.

Tobacco Control Efforts In The Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: Achievements And Challenges, S. Hassounah, D. Rawaf, T. Khoja, S. Rawaf, M.S. Hussein, Waris Qidwai, A. Majeed

Department of Family Medicine

This paper reports a review into the current state of tobacco use, governance and national commitment for control, and current intervention frameworks in place to reduce the use of tobacco among the populations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states and Yemen. It further reviews structured policy-oriented interventions (in line with the MPOWER package of 6 evidence-based tobacco control measures) that represent government actions to strengthen, implement and manage tobacco control programmes and to address the growing epidemic of tobacco use. Our findings show that tobacco control in the GCC countries has witness real progress over the past decades. …

Cigarette Sources For Teens By Grade: Implications For Prevention And Intervention, Netra M. Thakur, Michael P. Rosenthal, Priscilla Latta, Jamie L. Robinson, James Diamond

Department of Family & Community Medicine Faculty Papers

Objective: To identify at-risk teen populations and their sources of cigarettes, in order to help target future efforts in prevention of teen smoking. Methods: Analysis of smoking behavior questions for students in grades 6, 7, 9 and 12 from the 1997 Pennsylvania Biennial Youth Risk Survey. Results: Current smoking prevalence was 20.9% overall. The number of ninth grade smokers was almost five times higher than the number of sixth grade smokers (30.6% vs. 6.6%). Seventy-three percent of the teens identified friends as a source of tobacco. Stores became the most common source for twelfth graders only. Conclusion: Teenage smoking remains …