Past Thursday, January 13, we had the first meeting of the project “Effectiveness of an evidence-based intervention to promote smoke-free homes: randomized controlled trial” financed by the Carlos III Health Institute. This study is coordinated by the ICO/IDIBELL Tobacco Control Unit in collaboration with researchers from the Public Health Agencies of Barcelona (ASPB) and Catalonia […]
For a long time, the tobacco industry has been interfering in tobacco control policies at the local, regional, and global level by means of varied tactics. These aggressive tactics try to undermine the public health efforts including the WHO FCTC and include, as described by WHO, maneuvering to hijack the political and legislative process; exaggerating […]
Researchers from the Tobacco Control Unit have identified factors associated with changes in smoking patterns during and after one month of hospital discharge among smokers. This work has been published in the International Journal of Nursing Scholarship. The study included a representative cohort of adult smokers from four centres (2 in Catalonia and 2 in […]
After more than a year with restrictions due to the Covid-19 global pandemic, face-to-face conferences have returned. One of the first in-person conferences has been the 3rd International Edition of the Socidrogalcohol Congress held in Barcelona from October 21 to 23 in which three members of the ICO’s Tobacco Control Unit (UCT )participated. This year […]
The Annual Conference of the GNTH International Network – Global Network for Tobacco Free Healthcare Services was held on October 13th. Under the title “Challenges”, and this year in online format, we wanted to give visibility to the recently awarded with the recognition WHO World No Tobacco Day 2021, on the one hand the German […]
Since last May, together with the celebration of World No Tobacco Day, ICO implemented the campaign Allunyem el tabac, promoted by the Catalan Network of Smoke-Free Hospitals (UCT). This campaign aims to move tobacco use away from the hospital entrances with the ultimate goal of reducing the visibility of tobacco, denormalizing tobacco use and raising […]
Researchers at the Tobacco Control Unit-University of Barcelona have published results about “knowledge, attitudes, and training in tobacco dependence and cessation treatment” from the ECTEC study at the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. Nursing students are part of the future health labor force; thus, knowing their knowledge and participation in tobacco control is of […]
We are very pleased that on 16th June 2021, one of our team members, Beladenta Amalia, has successfully presented her doctoral thesis entitled “Environmental and bystanders’ exposure to secondhand aerosols of electronic cigarettes in the European population” at Campus Bellvitge, Universitat de Barcelona. The Dissertation comprises five original papers in leading journals. The Dissertation comprehensively […]
Os anunciamos el cuarto “Tobacco Control Webinar” del ICO/Centro Colaborador de la OMS para el Control del Tabaco. En esta ocasión, y como parte de nuestra celebración del Día Mundial sin Tabaco, presentaremos la versión para América Latina de la “Tobacco Control Scale” (TCS-LA). Desde el CC de la OMS hemos adaptado y pilotado en el continente americano la conocida escala […]
Yesterday, Monday 8th March, International Women’s Day, our colleague, Ariadna Feliu, read her doctoral thesis in the Hall of Degrees of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Campus Bellvitge. The jury formed by the Professor of Public Health Ildefonso Hernández (Universidad de Alicante), the Dr María José Duaso (King’s College London) and the […]
Over a thousand students from four European countries will test the first online learning tool aimed at combating smoking, a pandemic that, despite being non-transmissible, causes 8 million deaths worldwide every year and 700,000 in the European Union. The development and testing of this tool are two of the central objectives of the INSTrUCT Project, […]
Are you a Health Science Degree Lecturer/Instructor in one of our Universities? Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat de Lleida, Universidad de Navarra, Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra, King’s College London, Université Libre de Bruxelles, and Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel. Join us! Next 15th – 16th December, the INSTrUCT consortium will hold an online training session about […]
