From SPalmer.ceche.dc@worldnet.att.net Fri Aug 4 21:01:14 2000
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 10:22:47 -0400
From: Sushma Palmer
To: Friends of CECHE
Subject: Special Issue on Tobacco Control--CECHE's Global Health and
Environment Monitor
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Dear Colleagues:
The latest issue of the Global Health and Environment Monitor (Monitor)
is in print and may be viewed and downloaded from our website. As you
know, we are no longer distributing it via regular mail. Simply click on
http://www.ceche.org/Publications/Monitor/Vol-8/8-2.htm to view the
contents and scroll down the page to download the pdf file.
This issue of the Monitor, entitled“ New Tobacco Control Era
Dawns” is dedicated to the forthcoming 11th World conference on
Tobacco or Health to be held in August 2000 in Chicago. Each conferee
will receive the Monitor in their conference bags.
Here are the contents and authors for the current issue:
Inside this Issue:
* Global Tobacco Trends Spark Hope, Sound Alarm—by Michael
Erickson & colleagues, CDC, Atlanta
* CECheck-Up– by Sushma Palmer, CECHE, Washington DC
* BATA Battles BAT in Bangladesh—by Debra Efroymson, Path Canada,
Bangladesh
* We’ve Come A Long Way, Virginia Slims!— by David Simpson,
IATH, UK
* Tobacco Control Gains Ground in Eastern Europe—by Witold
Zatonski, Marie Curie Cancer Center, Warsaw
* EU Network Promotes Cross-border Alliance Against Tobacco—by
Sybille Fleitman, EU Network For Smoking Prevention, Brussels
* Hungarians Speak Out on Smoking and big Tobacco—by Zsuzsanna
Furesi & colleagues, FACT Institute, Pecs, Hungary
* Czechs, CECHE launch Internet Network– by Beverly Jensen, CECHE
* Tobacco Industry documents— Secrets Revealed, by Norbert
Hirschhorn, WHO Consultant
* WHO Unveils Framework convention on tobacco Control (FCTC)—by
Douglas Bettcher and William Onzivu, WHO/TFI, Geneva
* Tobacco Control Policies build on Centuries of Wisdom—by Judith
Mackay, Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control, Hong Kong.
The MONITOR is an 8-page periodical targeted to health professionals,
decision-makers, philanthropists, corporations, and governments
world-wide. The Monitor reaches approximately 10,000 readers in over 50
countries. The publication communicates on current health issues around
the globe, reports on progress in health education, research and
intervention programs, and catalyzes the sharing of knowledge, resources,
cooperation and action. Most issues of the monitor may be viewed on our
website: www.ceche.org and recent issues may be downloaded as a pdf file.
The Center for Communications, Health and the Environment (CECHE) is a
private, nonprofit, 501(c)(3) American institution based in Washington,
DC, specializing in health promotion and disease prevention, with a
special focus on lifestyle related issues such as tobacco control and
with special emphasis on the use of mass media nd information
technology.
Founded in 1990, CECHE’s mission has been to assist the newly
established democracies of Central Europe and the former Soviet Union by
initiating, coordinating and supporting programs to improve health and
alleviate the adverse health effects of environmental pollution in this
region. CECHE brings together scientists, journalists, educators, and
policy makers from the United States, Central Europe, the Newly
Independent States (NIS) and Asia to address the health and environmental
challenges facing societies in transition, especially through the use of
mass media. Our programs focus on four areas: environmental and public
health policy, community intervention, private voluntary sector
development and professional training and public education.
The next issue of the Monitor is slated to address the challenge
of“ Alternative Medicine”. I invite your comments on the
current issue and seek suggestions for future issues. Please also
indicate if you are interested in contributing an article to the
Monitor. If so, please provide your coordinates.
Thanks you.
Sushma Palmer
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Dr. Sushma Palmer, Chairman
Center for Communications, Health & The Environment (CECHE)
4437 Reservoir Road NW
Washington, DC, 20007
USA
Tel: 202-965-5990; Fax: 202-976-5996
Email: SPalmer.ceche.dc@worldnet.att.net
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