“Health Professionals for a tobacco free world” is still active.
The TFU advocacy campaign is about raising awareness among health personnel and professionals of their important role to reduce overall tobacco consumption and to show policy makers that personnel and professionals working in health care are calling for an effective implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
To support the campaign go to
http://www.ensh.eu/tfu-form.php
This campaign is a collaborative effort of the International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services (HPH) and the ENSH- Global Network of Tobacco Free Health Care Services.
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To advocate for stronger
tobacco control legislation
and the effective implementation
of tobacco control in all countries and the
international treaty on health (FCTC).
To provide greater support and direction
for hospitals and health services in their
work towards a tobacco free society.
Goals
3. Dissemination of the Charter and Pact to
- leading health professionals/organisations
- policy makers
- specialised media
Collection of signatures among
- organisations
- health professionals
Actions
5. ACTIVITY
Development of tools and materials
(2008-2010)
Campaign “Health Professionals for a Tobacco-free World”
(2012)
6. The Charter
for individual
health professionals
public demonstration of
personal engagement
on tobacco prevention
The Pact
designed to recruit
signatures of organisations
committed to
tobacco control policy
21. IDEAS
Focus on a concrete necessity
Think a plan
Make a communication strategy
Use social media
Engage health professionals
22. Plan for small wins
Present the issues in the way you want others to see them
Develop your own public identity
Keep it simple
Be passionate and persistent
Be opportunistic and creative
Make issues local and relevant
Enjoy yourself!
by Eric Wadud, Tom
Seekins, and Stephen
B. Fawcett.
University of Kansas
Skills for Advocates
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Sibylle Fleitmann (Germany)
Christa Rustler (Germany)
Simone Tasso (Italy)
Esther Carabasa (Spain)
Miriam Gunning (Ireland)
Ann ORiordan (Ireland)
21st International Conference
on Health Promoting Hospitals
and Health Services
23th May 2013
The Advocacy Subgroup
Hinweis der Redaktion
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control To promote the good health of populations worldwide in line with the United Nations Charter of Human Rights.
A two step procedure was adopted to connect with health professional organisations and tobacco control advocacy groups on regional, national and international levels and to develop a coordinated action:
development of tools and materials
development of tools and materials (Charter and Pact) The charter: designed to recruit the signatures of individual health professionals willing to publicly demonstrate their personal engagement to establishing comprehensive tobacco prevention and cessation programmes in their organisations/institutions. The pact: designed as an advocacy tool to recruit signatures of organisations and institutions committed and willing to demonstrate publicly their engagement to implement a comprehensive tobacco control policy and cessation services in their premises and to support the overall effort on local, regional, national and international level. German Italian Spanish Catalan Estonian Finnish English Chinese
TFU space on the ENSH-Global Website
To trigger increased engagement of professionals working in health care and health care services for tobacco control through signature of the TFU PACT for health care organisations) and /or a TFU CHARTER (for health care professionals and personnel) with a view to foster implementation of tobacco control policies in healthcare services. From: personnel in health care services To: national and international policy makers To call for an effective FCTC implementation worldwide
electronically from the Coordinating Centres of both HPH and ENSH with an endorsement from the chairs of both networks; Press release Announcement on TFU Facebook Mailing to European and International associations contacts Could be shared on the most important social networks- +250 likes on Facebook
Social media actions were explored: 1000 views 16 posts
2. Simplification of the TFU Charter would be worthwhile, based on the Taiwanese experience
3. Based on the Veneto HPH Network experience, the full potential of permanent display of named health professionals and personnel committed tobacco control should be explored.
development of tools and materials
combination of expertise_ Tobacco+Communication Use of role models (barça, etc)
Greater use of and further exploration on communication strategies and social media to engage health professionals become more active in tobacco control development of tools and materials Youtube unexploted: Jenna Marbles channel (near 9M subscribers ) WHO 5.418