Open AccessImplementation of Article 20 of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Author(s) -
Dhirendra N Sinha,
Amit Kumar,
Ruchika Gupta,
Harleen Kaur Gulati,
Sanjay Gupta,
Ravi Mehrotra
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
indian journal of medical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.578
H-Index - 87
ISSN - 0971-5916
DOI - 10.4103/ijmr.ijmr_288_18
Subject(s) - convention , tobacco control , smokeless tobacco , environmental health , political science , public health , business , medicine , tobacco use , law , population , nursing
Article 20 of the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) deals with surveillance and research on all tobacco products including smokeless tobacco (SLT). Here we describe the availability of indicators related to SLT among 180 Parties to the convention (countries ratifying the WHO FCTC are referred as Parties to the Convention).