Secker-Walke, Roger and Gnich, Wendy and Platt, Stephen and Lancaster, Tim (2002) Community interventions for reducing smoking among adults. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, (2), Art. No.: CD001745. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD001745.
External website: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1465185...
Objective: To assess the effectiveness of community interventions for reducing the prevalence of smoking.
Conclusion: The failure of the largest and best conducted studies to detect an effect on prevalence of smoking is disappointing. A community approach will remain an important part of health promotion activities, but designers of future programmes will need to take account of this limited effect in determining the scale of projects and the resources devoted to them.
HJ Treatment method > Substance disorder treatment method > Cessation of substance use
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and rehabilitation > Health care programme, service or facility > Community-based treatment (primary care)
VA Geographic area > International
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