Open AccessImplementation of a Smoke-Free Policy on School Premises and Tobacco Control as a Priority Among Municipal Health Promotion Activities: Nationwide Survey in Japan
Author(s) -
Kazunori Kayaba,
Chihiro Wakabayashi,
Naoko Kunisawa,
Hiromi Shinmura,
Hiroshi Yanagawa
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2004.044503
Subject(s) - tobacco control , odds ratio , environmental health , health promotion , confidence interval , promotion (chess) , medicine , control (management) , tobacco smoke , population , smoke , public health , geography , political science , nursing , politics , pathology , law , management , meteorology , economics
We conducted a nationwide survey to evaluate the effect of implementing a smoke-free policy in municipalities that forbid teachers to smoke on school premises. Questionnaires were mailed to 3207 municipalities throughout Japan. After we adjusted for population size and the standardized mortality ratio for male lung cancer, we found that assigning a high priority to tobacco control in municipal health promotion activities was significantly associated with implementation of school tobacco-control policies (odds ratio = 1.50, 95% confidence interval=1.24, 1.81).