Tobacco Use

ISBN-13: 9783639143232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 148 str.

Sesime Adanu

Opis

Over the past years, tobacco use has become a majorhealth policy concern in the U.S.. Tobacco use causes preventable diseases which lead to high health care costs. These diseases in turn reduce productivity on the labor force. Furthermore,secondhand smoke threatens the health of nonsmokers.Each year, over 400,000 tobacco users in the U.S. diefrom tobacco-related diseases and nearly 50,000 adultnonsmokers are reported dead from secondhand smoke. This book examined four major factors related to tobacco use namely: smokefree air policies, political factors, health-related quality of life, and socioeconomic status. As serious as the problem is, the literature is rare on the impact of political factors and smokefree air policies ontobacco use compared to the other factors. This book, therefore, offers a unique perspective on theunderstanding of tobacco use and its related policiesin the U.S.. The findings in this book unearth somecritical issues in the fight against tobacco use andshould be useful for those in academe, studentsinterested in health policy, legislators, anti-tobacco groups, private and government officialsaddressing health policy issues.

O autorze

Sesime K. Adanu, Ph.D: Studied Policy Analysis and Program
Evaluation at The University of Akron. He has background in
Advanced Health Care Statistics, Quantitative and Qualitative
Research Methods, health policy, issues of socioeconomic
development in developed and developing countries, Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) applications.