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Published in: Tobacco Induced Diseases 1/2013

Open Access 01-12-2013 | Editorial

Dealing with tobacco use and dependence within primary health care: time for action

Authors: Constantine Ilias Vardavas, Emmanouil K Symvoulakis, Christos Lionis

Published in: Tobacco Induced Diseases | Issue 1/2013

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Primary health care has an operational advantage in overall health promotion, as preventive activities and the management of multimorbidity are placed highly within its agenda. A key component of health promotion is tobacco prevention and smoking cessation, which in the developed world, is the largest preventable cause of death and disability, and estimated to cause 6 million preventable and premature deaths every year [1]. With the above dire number in mind, the World Health Organization has called for smoking cessation to be integrated into primary health care globally [2, 3]. …
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Metadata
Title
Dealing with tobacco use and dependence within primary health care: time for action
Authors
Constantine Ilias Vardavas
Emmanouil K Symvoulakis
Christos Lionis
Publication date
01-12-2013
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Tobacco Induced Diseases / Issue 1/2013
Electronic ISSN: 1617-9625
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1617-9625-11-6

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