HLTB16H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: United States Public Health Service, Smoking Cessation, Tobacco Advertising
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Hltb16 lecture 11 public health in action: alcohol and tobacco march 18th. Health promotion: the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, whereby individual health is improved (who) Health promotion, lung cancer screening and tobacco control. The single largest opportunity to modify individual risk of lung cancer: smoking cessation (primary prevention of all tobacco-associated diseases) Lung cancer screening for smokers and former smokers provides secondary prevention by decreasing the mortality and morbidity associated with lung cancer. Smoking cessation is an essential part of any lung cancer screening program (jacobson and jaklitsch 2013) Jaklitsch 2013: regardless of sex, cigarettes promoted as glamorous and life enhancing. Incidence rate for lung cancer increased in an epidemic manner from 4. 9 per. 100,000 white men in 1930 to 27. 1 per 100,000 in 1948, to 102 per 100,000 in 1984 (see jacobson and jaklitsch 2013) The more people consume (smoke) cigarettes, the higher the lung cancer rates.
