Implementation of effective cigarette health warning labels among low and middle income countries: State capacity, path-dependency and tobacco industry activity

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue , 2015, Pages 241-245

  Hiilamo, Heikki ^a   Glantz, Stanton A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

FCTC; Global tobacco control; Health warning labels; State fragility

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; HEALTH POLICY; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; STATE ROLE; TOBACCO; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARTICLE; CIGARETTE HEALTH WARNING LABEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROMOTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; PACKAGING; PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; SMOKING BAN; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SMOKING; STANDARDS; TOBACCO; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; PRODUCT LABELING; SMOKING; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84913558308     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.11.054     Document Type: Article

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