A realist evaluation of the implementation of a national tobacco control programme and policy in India.

ABSTRACT: There is a growing interest in studying and unpacking the implementation of policies and programmes as it provides an opportunity to reduce the policy translation time lag taken for research findings to translate into policies and be implemented and to understand why policies may fail. Realist evaluation is a theory-driven approach that embraces complexity and helps to identify the mechanisms generating the observed policy outcomes in a given context. We aimed to study facilitators and barriers while implementing the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act 2003 (COTPA), a comprehensive national tobacco control policy, and the National Tobacco Control Programme 2008 (NTCP), using realist evaluation. We developed an initial programme theory (IPT) based on a realist literature review of tob

SUBMITTER: Hebbar PB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11800981 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature