Implementation of a smoke-free policy on school premises and tobacco control as a priority among municipal health promotion activities: nationwide survey in Japan.
We conducted a nationwide survey to evaluate the effect of implementing a smoke-free policy in municipalities that forbid teachers to smoke on school premises. Questionnaires were mailed to 3207 municipalities throughout Japan. After we adjusted for population size and the standardized mortality ratio for male lung cancer, we found that assigning a high priority to tobacco control in municipal health promotion activities was significantly associated with implementation of school tobacco-control policies (odds ratio = 1.50, 95% confidence interval=1.24, 1.81).
Kayaba
Kazunori
K
Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology, Department of Health and Social Services, Saitama Prefectural University, 820 Sannomiya, Koshigaya, Saitama 343-8540 Japan. kayaba-kazunori@spu.ac.jp
Wakabayashi
Chihiro
C
Kunisawa
Naoko
N
Shinmura
Hiromi
H
Yanagawa
Hiroshi
H
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D015982:Bias; D002423:Cause of Death; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003625:Data Collection / Q000592:standards; D005178:Faculty; D006291:Health Policy; D006292:Health Priorities; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008017:Life Expectancy; D009111:Local Government; D016015:Logistic Models; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D016134:Organizational Policy; D011156:Population Density; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011634:Public Health; D012574:Schools / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution
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