Country-specific costs of implementing the WHO FCTC tobacco control policies and potential financing sources.

ABSTRACT:

Background

One of the major obstacles to the full implementation of the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention of Tobacco Control (FCTC) tobacco control measures is the lack of sustainable financing resources.

Goal

To update and simulate country-specific indicators that are highly relevant to the costs and financial resources of the treaty policy implementation. We also developed an Excel tool for simulation and assessed the aggregated-level indicators by the 2016 World Bank income groups.

Approaches

Using mostly 2016 data or 2014-15 data if 2016 one are not available, we updated five indicators relevant to the treaty implementation, which are the gap between current and desirable policy implementation, cigarette affordability, the costs of implementing

SUBMITTER: Shang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6169924 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature