| Summary: | Background
A report of
the MPOWER activities of countries worldwide is published once every two years by the
WHO. Our objective was to perform a quantitative analysis of WHO report on
tobacco control program in countries and regions to make a simple view of global
tobacco control programs and to find best parties on it.
Methods
This was a cross-sectional
study by filling out a validated check list from the 2015 WHO report (MPOWER). All 10 measures were changed to indicators
and getting scores. The scores were entered independently by two individuals
and a third party compared the values and confirmed their accuracy. The scores
were summed and presented in a descending order.
Results
Fifteen countries, which acquired the highest scores (85% of
total 37) included Panama and Turkey with 35, Brazil and Uruguay with 34,
Ireland, United Kingdom, Iran, Brunei, Argentina and Costa Rica with 33 and
Australia, Nepal, Thailand, Canada and Mauritius with 32 points.
Conclusions
These 15 countries may indicate as a best model for other
parties in implementation and enforcement of tobacco control program. Comparison
of scores of different countries in this respect can be beneficial since it
creates a challenge for the health policy makers to find weakness of the
tobacco control programs to work on it.
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