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KMID : 1231220180090000001
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Journal of the Korean Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
2018 Volume.9 No. 0 p.1 ~ p.10
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Tobacco Control Policies in the Republic of Korea and the Methods of the ITC Korea Surveys
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Seo Hong-Gwan
Kim Yeol
Xu Steve Shaowei
Quah Anne C. K.
Boudreau Christian
Yan Mi
Thompson Mary E.
Fong Geoffrey T.
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Abstract
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This article reviews tobacco control policies that have recently been implemented in the Republic of Korea and describes methods of the ITC Korea Surveys conducted from 2005 to 2016 to evaluate the impact of those policies. The ITC Korea Surveys are part of the ITC Project, a large global project being conducted in 29 countries, whose main objective is to conduct rigorous evaluation of tobacco control policies of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). The ITC Korea Project is a collaboration between the Korean National Cancer Center (NCC) and the ITC Project at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Over 11 years, the ITC Korea research team has conducted two longitudinal surveys of a national cohort of adult smokers in Korea. The first cohort survey was conducted in 2005, 2008, and 2010. In 2016, the first wave of a new cohort survey was conducted. The ITC Korea Project is a critically important evidence system for evaluation of policies that complements the evidence from existing surveillance systems. Evaluation evidence on the impact of FCTC policies is becoming increasingly important to guide actions toward achieving the ambitious objectives of the Sustainable Development Goals and the WHO’s Global Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases. Evaluation evidence is also critically important for governments whose policies are being challenged in domestic and international courts and via trade treaties.
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KEYWORD
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FCTC, Tobacco control, ITC Korea survey, Sample design
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