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Assessment of the multi-sectoral approach to tobacco control policies in South Africa and Togo

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Title
Assessment of the multi-sectoral approach to tobacco control policies in South Africa and Togo
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BMC Public Health, August 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12889-018-5829-3
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Saliyou Sanni, Charles Hongoro, Catherine Ndinda, Jennifer P. Wisdom

Abstract

Tobacco use is the world's leading preventable cause of illness and death and the most important risk factor for non-communicable diseases (NCDs), particularly cardiovascular and chronic respiratory diseases (heart attack, stroke, congestive obstructive pulmonary disease, and lung cancer). Tobacco control is one of the World Health Organization's "best-buys" interventions to prevent NCDs. This study assessed the use of a multi-sectoral approach (MSA) in developing and implementing tobacco control policies in South Africa and Togo. This two-country case study consisted of a document review of tobacco control policies and of key informant interviews (N = 56) about the content, context, stakeholders, and strategies employed throughout policy formulation and implementation in South Africa and Togo. To guide our analysis, we used the Comprehensive Framework for Multi-Sectoral Approach to Health Policy, which is built around four major constructs of context, content, stakeholders and strategies. The findings show that the formulation of tobacco control policies in both countries was driven locally by the political, historical, social and economic contexts, and globally by the adoption WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). In both countries, the health department led policy formulation and implementation. The stakeholders involved in South Africa were more diverse, proactive and dynamic than those in Togo, whereas the strategies employed were more straightforward in Togo than in South Africa. The extent of understanding and use of MSA in both countries consisted of an inter-sectoral action for health, whereby the health department strove to collaborate with other sectors within and outside the government. Consequently, information sharing was identified as the main outcome of the interactions between institutions and interest groups within and across three critical sectors of the state, namely the public (government), the private and the civil society. Tobacco control policies in South Africa and Togo were formulated and implemented from an inter-sectoral approach perspective, which relied heavily on information transfer between stakeholders and less on collaborative problem-solving approach. Incorporation of multiple stakeholders allowed both countries to formulate policies to meet FCTC goals for tobacco control and NCD reduction.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 122 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 22 18%
Researcher 14 11%
Student > Bachelor 12 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 6%
Other 16 13%
Unknown 42 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 20%
Nursing and Health Professions 16 13%
Social Sciences 11 9%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 8 7%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 5 4%
Other 14 11%
Unknown 44 36%
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