Global Tobacco Surveillance System: The GTSS atlas
Publication date: 2015
This Atlas presents tobacco statistics from 22 GATS countries in a visual format—using data that cover nearly 60 per cent of the world’s population. Following the MPOWER framework, and incorporating the WHO FCTC Articles, it describes the range of tobacco products, and represents statistics on tobacco use, secondhand smoke exposure, cessation, warnings about the dangers of tobacco, bans on advertising, promotion and sponsorship, and tobacco taxes. Progress and opportunities for further actions in 22 GATS countries are also highlighted.
Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS): Qatar fact sheet 2013
Publication date: 2013
The Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) is a global standard for systematically monitoring adult tobacco use (smoking and smokeless) and tracking key tobacco control indicators. GATS is a nationally representative survey, using a consistent and standard protocol across countries including Qatar. GATS enhances countries’ capacity to design, implement and evaluate tobacco control programs. It will also assist countries to fulfill their obligations under the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) to generate comparable data within and across countries.
Cigarette package health warnings and interest in quitting smoking, 14 countries: 2008–2010
Publication date: 2011
This report illustrates how the countries that are parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) are obligated to place health warnings on tobacco products that describe the harmful effects of tobacco use. To assess the effects of cigarette package health warnings on interest in quitting smoking among smokers of manufactured cigarettes aged ≥15 years, this report examines 2008–2010 data from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) in 14 WHO FCTC countries.
Progress in tobacco control in Egypt and Pakistan
Publication date: 2010
This report aims to highlight the progress in Egypt and Pakistan during the past few years and at the same time identify the needs for the coming phase of tobacco control, with special emphasis on the role of the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean during this period. Over the past two years a number of activities have been conducted, with special focus on the demand side of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
Global Adult Tobacco Survey: Egypt country report 2009
Publication date: 2010
The Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) in Egypt is a nationally representative household survey of men and women aged 15 years and above. It is designed to produce internationally comparable data on tobacco use and tobacco control measures using a standardized questionnaire, sample design, data collection, aggregation and analysis procedures. This report provides the results of the 2009 GATS for Egypt. Data are presented in five chapters that address key survey findings by topics: tobacco use; cessation; second-hand smoke; tobacco economics; media; and knowledge, attitude and perceptions toward tobacco.
Egypt Global Adult Tobacco Survey: Key findings
Publication date: 2010
This package highlights all the important findings of the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) in Egypt. It comprises information on: the actual survey; tobacco use in Egypt; men and tobacco use; women and tobacco use; shisha use; smokeless tobacco; exposure to second-hand smoke; and cessation, public knowledge and the media. GATS was implemented in the Eastern Mediterranean Region for the first time in Egypt and is a component of the Global Tobacco Surveillance System.
Fact sheets on Global Adult Tobacco Survey
Publication date: 2010
This fact sheet is an informational on the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS), which was initiated in 2007, it is a nationally representative household survey of adults 15 years and older. GATS uses a consistent and standard protocol across countries to systematically monitor adult tobacco use and track trends over time in tobacco-related knowledge, attitudes, behaviours and environmental influences. It includes information on respondents’ background characteristics, tobacco use (smoked and smokeless), cessation, second-hand smoke, economics, media, knowledge, attitudes and perceptions towards tobacco use.
Fact sheets on Global Youth Tobacco Survey
Publication date: 2010
This Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) fact sheets and country reports provide the results of the various rounds conducted in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region. All survey information is compiled within the participating country by a research coordinator nominated by the ministry of health, and technically reviewed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Fact sheets on Global School Personnel Survey
Publication date: 2010
The Global School Personnel Survey (GSPS) fact sheets provide the results of the various survey rounds conducted in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region. All survey information is compiled within the participating country by a research coordinator nominated by the ministry of health, and technically reviewed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The content of the fact sheets has not otherwise been edited by WHO or CDC.
Fact sheets on Global Health Professions Student Survey
Publication date: 2010
The Global Health Professions Student Survey (GHPSS) fact sheets and country reports provide the results of the various survey rounds conducted in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region. All survey information is compiled within the participating country by a research coordinator nominated by the ministry of health, and technically reviewed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The content of the fact sheets and country reports has not otherwise been edited by WHO or CDC.
Changes in tobacco use among 13–15 year olds between 1999 and 2007: findings from the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Publication date: 2010
This report focuses on change over time in tobacco use among adolescents in countries included in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). The Global Youth Tobacco Survey was conducted in each site at least twice between 1999 and 2007. Results indicate that for students aged13–15 years tobacco use is a major public health problem. Increase in the use of water pipe, the likely initiation of smoking by never smokers, and a potential increase in tobacco use among young girls was found in most of the EMR sites.
Evolution of the Global Tobacco Surveillance System (GTSS) 1998–2008
Publication date: 2009
This publication covers the evolution of the Global Tobacco Surveillance Systems. Given that country-specific international data on tobacco use were limited or nonexistent, in 1998, the World Health Organization (WHO), and other partners, initiated the Global Tobacco Surveillance System (GTSS) to assist countries in establishing tobacco control surveillance and monitoring programs. GTSS includes collection of data through three school-based surveys. This report can assist countries in prioritizing and developing tobacco control programs, including surveillance, evaluation, and policy development.
Tobacco use among Palestine refugee students aged 13–15 UNRWA: 2009
Publication date: 2009
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has made tobacco use prevention a primary health issue. UNRWA provides education, health, relief and social services in five fields of operation: Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The purpose of this paper is to compare tobacco use among Palestine refugee students and students in the general population of the five fields of operation.
Changes in tobacco use among 13–15 year olds between 1999 and 2008: Findings from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey
Publication date: 2009
The purpose of this paper is to focus on change in youth tobacco use using data from 100 sites that have conducted repeat Global Youth Tobacco Surveys (GYTS). The GYTS is a school-based survey that collects data from students aged 13-15 years using a standardized methodology for constructing the sample frame, selecting schools and classes, and processing data. GYTS is conducted in school classes using self-administered anonymous data collection. The GYTS sample produces representative, independent, cross-sectional estimates for each sampling frame.
CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Tobacco use among students aged 13–15 years, Baghdad, Iraq, 2008
Publication date: 2009
In 2008, Iraq's parliament ratified the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), which obligates participants to establish tobacco use monitoring, surveillance, and evaluation systems. Lack of data on adolescent tobacco use in Iraq led the Ministry of Health (MOH) to conduct the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) in Baghdad in 2008. GYTS is a school-based survey of students aged 13--15 years that is self-administered in classes in selected schools.
Tobacco use and cessation counselling among health professional students: Lebanon Global Health Professions Student Survey, 2005
Publication date: 2009
The number of deaths attributable to tobacco use is rising globally. Health professionals can help reduce tobacco use by providing advice to patients regarding smoking cessation. Very few studies have collected information on tobacco use and cessation counseling training among health professional students. The purpose of this paper is to examine these issues using data from the 2005 Lebanon Global Health Professions Student Survey (GHPSS).
CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Global Youth Tobacco Surveillance 2000–2007
Publication date: 2008
In this report, the findings suggest that the estimate of a deaths from tobacco smoking and other tobacco products is actually underestimated. It indicates that the level of cigarette smoking between boys and girls is similar in many sites. Interventions that decrease tobacco use among youth must be broad-based, focused on boys and girls, and have components directed toward prevention and cessation. If effective programs are not developed and implemented soon, future morbidity and mortality attributed to tobacco probably will increase.
Tobacco use and cessation counselling: cross-country. Data from the Global Health Professions Student Survey 2005–2007
Publication date: 2008
Health professional schools, public health organisations and education officials should discourage tobacco use among health professionals and work together to design and implement programmes that train all health professionals in effective cessation counselling techniques. If the goal of the tobacco control community is to reduce substantially the use of tobacco products, then resources should be invested in improving the quality of education of health professionals with respect to tobacco control.
Linking Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) data to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC): The case for Lebanon
Publication date: 2008
Data in this report can be used as baseline measures for future evaluation of the tobacco control programs implemented by the Ministry of Health with particular attention to youth. The key for the Lebanese parliament is to develop, endorse, implement and enforce these new tobacco control laws and use the data from GYTS to monitor progress toward achieving the goals of the WHO FCTC. One key component of tobacco control needs to be the monitoring of Narguileh use among youth, a new emergency.
Patterns of tobacco use: Results from the 2005 Global Youth Tobacco Survey in Lebanon
Publication date: 2008
This paper presents the results of GYTS 2005 that was implemented in Lebanon from March 2005 to May 2005. The Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) was developed through the Tobacco Free Initiative by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO). It is a school-based survey of students aged 13–15 years, and was conducted in 2001 and 2005 in Lebanon.
Prevalence of tobacco use among students aged 13–15 years in Health Ministers’ Council/Gulf Cooperation Council Member States 2001–2004
Publication date: 2008
This article examines differences and similarities in adolescent tobacco use among Member States of the Health Ministers' Council for the Gulf Cooperation Council (HMC/GCC) using Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) data. For boys and girls, high prevalence of cigarette smoking, high prevalence of shisha use, and high susceptibility of never smokers to initiate smoking in the next year are troubling indicators for the future of chronic disease and tobacco-related mortality in the Member States of the HMC/GCC.
Trends in tobacco use among school students in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Global Youth Tobacco Survey 1999–2007
Publication date: 2007
This information has been generated from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey; it highlights the trends in five important variables of tobacco usage and exposure among school students (13–15 years) across the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region. The variable are: current users of cigarettes; current users of other tobacco products besides cigarettes; never smokers who are susceptible to start smoking; and exposure to second-hand smoke at home and in public places.
Fact sheets on Health Professionals Survey in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Publication date: 2005
This survey, which was developed by WHO in collaboration with partners, covers tobacco use in health professionals in five countries of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (Egypt, Jordan, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Qatar and Saudi Arabia), between 2002 and 2004. It covers the issue of tobacco use, the participant’s knowledge about smoking, and how health professionals can become involved involved in specific tobacco control policy measures, such as promoting the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), smoke-free workplaces, tax increases and cessation services.
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Differences in worldwide tobacco use by gender: Findings from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey
Publication date: 2003
In this paper, two unexpected findings emerged from the study on tobacco use by gender. First, little difference existed between the genders in cigarette smoking or in use of other tobacco products. From the data collected, more than one-half showed no difference by gender. For other tobacco products, 70.1% showed no difference by gender. Second, analysis revealed surprisingly high use of other tobacco products compared to cigarette smoking. Findings suggest programs should focus broadly on all tobacco products, not just cigarettes.