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09-18-2012, 04:30 PM
An agreement has been signed between the Dominican Medical Association (CMD) and the Community-Partnered Tobacco Control in Underserved Dominican Republic Communities Project, (PDT2), which aims to encourage people to quit smoking, reduce secondhand spoke and create smoke-free homes in the country.
The document is the result of an agreement between University of Rochester in the US and the Juan XXIII Health Center in Santiago and is funded by the National Cancer Institute in the United States, and the University of Rochester.
According to Sergio Diaz from PDT2, 29% of Dominicans in rural areas and 17% in urban areas smoke tobacco. The goal is that at the end of the intervention by 2014, people will give up smoking and a healthier environment with less exposure to secondhand smoke will have been achieved. He said that citizens should exercise their right to breathe clean air in public spaces, and although there was a law in place for this, in his opinion it was not enforced.
The project seeks to test the effectiveness of community-based interventions for secondhand smoke and quitting smoking in eight underserved communities in the Dominican Republic. The project will also partner with communities and national and international groups to determine whether the methods and interventions from this study in the Dominican Republic can also be used to help other countries in the region and underserved groups in the United States.
www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2012/9/17/247589/El-29-de-la-poblacion-rural-de-RD-fuma-tabaco-frente-a-un-17-en-las (http://www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2012/9/17/247589/El-29-de-la-poblacion-rural-de-RD-fuma-tabaco-frente-a-un-17-en-las)
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01228916
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#6)
The document is the result of an agreement between University of Rochester in the US and the Juan XXIII Health Center in Santiago and is funded by the National Cancer Institute in the United States, and the University of Rochester.
According to Sergio Diaz from PDT2, 29% of Dominicans in rural areas and 17% in urban areas smoke tobacco. The goal is that at the end of the intervention by 2014, people will give up smoking and a healthier environment with less exposure to secondhand smoke will have been achieved. He said that citizens should exercise their right to breathe clean air in public spaces, and although there was a law in place for this, in his opinion it was not enforced.
The project seeks to test the effectiveness of community-based interventions for secondhand smoke and quitting smoking in eight underserved communities in the Dominican Republic. The project will also partner with communities and national and international groups to determine whether the methods and interventions from this study in the Dominican Republic can also be used to help other countries in the region and underserved groups in the United States.
www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2012/9/17/247589/El-29-de-la-poblacion-rural-de-RD-fuma-tabaco-frente-a-un-17-en-las (http://www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2012/9/17/247589/El-29-de-la-poblacion-rural-de-RD-fuma-tabaco-frente-a-un-17-en-las)
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01228916
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#6)