The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OpenCourseWare (OCW) project provides free access to content of the School's most popular courses, including the IGTC course in Global Tobacco Control. OCW offers free online content and does not require registration. Global Tobacco Control
Provides an introduction to global tobacco control. Presents the health and economic burden of tobacco use worldwide and highlights practical approaches to tobacco prevention, control, surveillance and evaluation. Using lectures, case-studies and discussion, this course examines transnational tobacco control issues, including the following: - the interpretation and packaging of epidemiologic evidence for policy makers
- the determinants of tobacco addiction
- the economics of global tobacco control
- tobacco industry strategies
- legal foundations for regulation
- basic surveillance and evaluation methods
The OCW materials are not for credit towards any degrees or certificates offered by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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