Zusammenfassung der Ressource
quit vic
- Develops personal skills
- Provides info regarding tobacco smoking
- Achieved through a mass advertising campaign and via downloadable info on their website.
- provides info on benefits of not smoking
- Creates a supportive environment
- Provides personalised counselling for those who want to stop smoking
- Quitline is quits telephone service that individuals can use to receive advice
- Online services are also available
- Strengthens community action
- Assist health professionals, community groups
and various population groups to develop anti
smoking strategies
- provides specialist training for health
professionals and funding to community and
population groups
- these groups include indigenous australians, those experiencing
health issues, ethnic and multicultural groups, schools,
workplaces and enterntaining venues.
- Healthy public policies
- developed in conjuction with state governments
- policies include laws relating to smoking in public places,
tobacco advertising and the display of cigarettes in retail
outlets
- Reorients health services
- Invests millions of dollars in smoking prevention research
- Research provides best practice techniques for
preventing people from starting smoking and
assisting smokers to quit.
- in turn reduces incidence of many illnesses such as
cancer and cardiovascular disease.