*Update* July 2010
The Working with Communities to Reduce Health Inequalities Project will hold, on Monday 30 September 2010, its closing Conference.
The event, which will take place at the Committee of the Regions, will present :
the key findings of the Project,
policy recommendations for European, national, regional and local decision-makers,
a cross-cultural tool-kit to be used by anyone with an interest in working with or for children and young people to prevent smoking and smoking exposure.
The invitation to the closing Conference is available here.
*Update* April 2010
The "Working with Communities to reduce Health Inequalities" project issued its third Newsletter in April 2010. This new edition presents projects in Liverpool, UK, France and Latvia, which aim to raise awareness on tobacco-related issues and reduce smoking consumption amongst the 11-16 years old age group. The previous Newsletter (see below) presented initiatives from Romania, Italy and Manchester, UK, whose goal was to engage communities in protecting children from exposure to second-hand smoke. Updates are available on these latest projects.
To view the newsletter, please click here.
For further information on the project, please read below.
Interventions to protect children from exposure to tobacco smoke are more likely to succeed in the context of a wider smoking ban. Nevertheless, significant gaps still exist in fully assessing the effectiveness of such interventions, as there is a general lack of evaluation of their impact or the health outcomes. Therefore, the project’s primary objective is to develop effective methods of engaging local communities and peer groups in order to bring about changes in lifestyle, thus generating positive health outcomes and reducing health inequalities, developing tools to reduce high smoking prevalence among young people and reducing children and young people’s exposure to second-hand smoke.
The "Working with Communities to reduce Health Inequalities" project has now entered the third phase of the work plan, which concentrates on six pilot interventions targeting disadvantaged communities and groups. Partners from Manchester, UK, Romania and Italy have implemented pilot projects which centred on engaging communities in protecting children from exposure to second-hand smoke.
This newsletter examines the progress and presents some illustrations of the work.
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