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Collaboration on Tobacco Control
in Southeast Asia
Workshop
for Economic and Epidemiologic Research on Tobacco and Tobacco Control
March 25-29, 2002
Kanchanaburi , Thailand
Agenda
(34KB PDF)
Participants
(11KB PDF)
Presentations
Using
Evidence for Policy Advocacy, Buasai,
S. (76KB PDF)
SEA
Tobacco Control Alliance,
Ritthiphakdee, B.
(122KB PDF)
Obtaining
Support for Tobacco Control Research,
So, A. (214KB PDF)
Using
Evidence for Policy Advocacy, Assunta,
M. (76KB
PDF)
Smoking
and Poverty, Hu, T.
(58KB PDF)
Understanding,
Measuring and Combating Tobacco Smuggling,
Merriman, D. (77KB PDF)
Tobacco,
Tobacco Control, and Employment, Ross,
H. (200KB
PDF)
Economic
Analysis of Tobacco Control in China,
Hu, T. and Mao, Z.
(25KB PDF)
Estimating
Demand for Tobacco, Ross, H. and Ciercierski,
C. (284KB PDF)
Trading Tobacco for
Health, Chaloupka, F(1.33MB PDF)
Cost Effectiveness
and Tobacco Control, Peck, R(162KB PDF)
Workshop for Communicating the Evidence
for Tobacco Control
September 23-26, 2002
Penang, Malaysia
Agenda
(28KB PDF)
Purpose of Meeting
(8KB PDF)
Goals of Meeting
(9KB PDF)
Presentations
The
Economics of Tobacco Control: Tobacco Taxation, Chaloupka F.
(339KB PDF)
Document Research Workshop
January 17-19, 2003
Penang, Malaysia
Agenda (10KB
PDF)
Presentations
Economics of Tobacco
Control and Industry Documents, Ross, H
(114KB PDF)
Regional Workshop on Advancing Tobacco
Tax Policy in Southeast Asia
March 3-6, 2003
Hanoi, Vietnam
The workshop was organized in a cooperation with the Vietnam National
Committee n Smoking and Health (VINACOSH), SEA Tobacco Control Alliance,
PATH-Canada Vietnam Office, and Thai Health Promotion Foundation. Support
was provided by the Rockefeller Foundation. ITEN invited representatives
of the World Bank and WHO Vietnam to participate at the workshop.
Agenda (20.4KB PDF)
Participants (10KB
PDF)
Goals of Meeting (14KB
PDF)
Presentations
Evidence for Using Uniform
High Tobacco Tax, Kink, HV and Ngoc, VTB. (1.17MB PDF)
Evaluating Tobacco Control
Policies: The Role of Survey Data and Demand Models, Levy, D. (334KB
PDF)
Regional Picture of Tobacco
Tax and Policy, Ross, H. (623KB PDF)
Action Plans: Cambodia
(279KB PDF), Malaysia
(28KB PDF), Thailand
(100KBPDF), Vietnam
(37KB PDF)
Tobacco and Poverty, Hu, T.
(58KB PDF)
Tobacco,
Tobacco Control, and Employment, Ross,
H. (200KB
PDF)
A
Study on Increasing Tax in Thailand,
Pongpanich S. (186KB PDF)
The Framework
Connection on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and Tobacco Tax Related Issues,
Hallen, G. (161KB PDF)
Myths and
Fact on the Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control, Chaloupka, F.
(295KB PDF)
Workshop New Evidence on Tobacco Control
Policies: South East Asia
August 5, 2003
Helsinki, Finland
Description
(18KB PDF)
Abstract (9KB
PDF)
Presentations
Evidence
for Using Uniform High Tobacco Tax, Kinh HV, Minh NT, Ngoc, VTB (1.02MB
PDF)
Burden of Tobacco
Smoking on Households in Vietnam, Kinh HV, Lam NT, Ngoc VTB, Minh
NT, Hien NTT (822KB PDF)
Impacts of Tobacco Taxation
on Income Equity in Vietnam, Loi (190KB PDF)
Workshop
"Estimating Costs of Tobacco Consumption"
December 14-15, 2003
Bangkok, Thailand
Agenda
(17KB PDF)
Notes
from the workshop and evaluation (21KB PDF)
Presentations
Estimating
Smoking's Costs: Epidemiologic Approaches, Samet JM (755KB PDF)
Critique
of Phillip Morris Study for the Czech Republic, Ross H (102KB PDF)
Evaluating
Tobacco Control Policies: The Role of Simulation Models, Levy D (638KB
PDF)
Issues in Tobacco Tax Design, Collins D, Lapsley H (permission pending)
International Guidelines for Estimating the Costs of Substance Abuse (permission
pending)
Workshop
focusing on "Trade and Tobacco Control"
July 24-25, 2004
Kuala Lumpur
Agenda
(24KB PDF)
Presentations
U.S.
Trade Policy and Cigarette Smoking in Asia
(8KB PDF)
The
Impact of Trade Liberalization on Tobacco Consumption (12KB PDF)
The
Demand for Cigarettes in Taiwan: Domestic versus Imported Cigarettes
(9KB PDF)
Review
of Existing International Research, Peck (34KB PDF)
Tobacco
Trade Liberalization Under CEPT Scheme for AFTA, Chanthalangsy (248KB
PDF)
AFTA
and Tobacco, Ross (254KB PDF)
Malaysian Conference
on Tobacco Control
May 2005
Kuala Lumpur
Agenda
(24KB PDF)
ITEN Deputy Director presented Will
Tobacco Control Hurt the Economy? (132KB
PDF) at the conference.
This conference was the first of this kind in Malaysia and it summarized
the local research results in the tobacco control area. Three presenters
at the conference conducted their studies under the combined ITEN - Rockefeller
initiative in the Region.
Workshop on Economics to Tax Policy
August 11-13, 2005
Luang
Prabang, Laos
Program
(36KB PDF)
Presentations
Tobacco
Tax Design (92KB PDF)
Economics
of Tobacco Control and Tobacco Tax Policy (280KB PDF)
Economic
Research on Tobacco Taxes: Price Elasticity of Tobacco Demand (436KB
PDF)
Myths in Economics
of Tobacco Control (572KB PDF)
Writing
a Successful Research Proposal
(32KB
PDF)
Country Visits to Southeast
Asia
January 2001
Held in Bangkok, Thailand, this working group meeting brought together
key representatives from the region as well as researchers from the University
of Illinois, Health Research and Policy Centers and the Johns Hopkins
School of Public Health. Led by Anthony So from the Rockefeller Foundation,
this working group defined the goals, necessary activities and timeline
for the Trading Tobacco for Health Initiative.
Agenda
and Summary (32KB PDF)
Supporting
document (12.2KB PDF)
Economic
Research on Tobacco in Southeast Asia, Chaloupka F, Czart C (241KB
PDF)
January 2003
The ITEN deputy director Hana Ross has visited Viet Nam, Malaysia, Cambodia
and Thailand. She participated in country level meetings of local tobacco
control coordinators. Dr. Ross has presented economic arguments to the
Interministerial Committee Meeting in Cambodia, and to the Vietnam National
Committee for Smoking and Health in Hanoi. Her presentation at the Tobacco
Industry Document Workshop in Penang, Malaysia, help the participants
to improve their knowledge of the economic aspect of tobacco industry
document search.
Tobacco
Tax and Economics, Ross H (104KB PDF)
Economics of
Tobacco Control and Industry Documents, Ross, H
(114KB PDF)
May 2003
The ITEN deputy director Hana Ross has visited Viet Nam,
Malaysia, Cambodia and Thailand. This visit focused on technical assistance
with the ongoing research project in the region. In Malaysia, Dr. Ross
also attended a meeting at the Ministry of Health where next steps in
tobacco control research and tobacco control advocacy were planned. In
Cambia, Dr. Ross met with the World Bank representative and together with
a WHO representative, Greg Hallen, delivered a petition to support FCC
ratification in Cambodia. A series of meetings in Viet Nam focused on
developing research agenda for future grant applications.
December 2003
ITEN Deputy Director visited the region to present at the regional workshop
in Bangkok and to conduct several face-to-face mentoring sessions. Several
mentoring sessions occurred in Bangkok before and after the Cost of Smoking
Workshop and several meetings were held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In addition,
ITEN Deputy Director had a chance to discuss the NIH funded Loma Linda
project in Cambodia with our regional counterpart Judith Mackay.
August 2005
ITEN Deputy Director visited all four key countries (Cambodia, Malaysia,
Thailand and Vietnam) and also Laos during this last visit to the region
under the Rockefeller initiative. This visit focused on dissemination
of research findings that were assembled during four years of research
efforts in the region. In addition, the deputy director organized multiple
mentoring sessions and sessions where local researchers and tobacco control
stakeholders planned their future research agenda. ITEN Deputy Director
also met with public policy makers in all five countries to discuss the
future agenda for public policy in the area of tobacco control.
All parties acknowledged that progress was made in terms of assembling
local research evidence, but more needs to be done to protect the public
health interest from tobacco.
Other Activities
Development of the SimSmoke Model for
Selected ASIAN Countries
In a cooperation with the Institute for Global Tobacco Control at Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, ITEN supports the effort of
Dr. David Levy from the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
to develop the SimSmoke model for several SE Asian countries. The
model will serve as a tool for better understanding tobacco policy, for
educating government officials on the effects of tobacco control policies,
and to provide a framework for the surveillance and evaluation of policies.
The SimSmoke model has been developed for Vietnam and the article
describing the model was submitted for publication. Development of similar
models is underway in Malaysia and Thailand.
Description
of the Model (20KB PDF)
Tobacco Industry Surveillance Project
ITEN actively participates in the Tobacco Industry Surveillance Project
managed by the Institute for Global Tobacco Control at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health. ITEN helped with the design of the project and
provided comments on the proposal. ITEN Deputy Director participated in
a structured discussion on the topic of tobacco industry mapping organized
by the Institute for Global Tobacco Control during the WCTOH 2003 in Helsinki.
ITEN Deputy Director provided inputs for conceptual mapping of industry
activities that will be used during the data collection stage of the project.
ASEAN Consultation on the Impact of
AFTA on Tobacco Trade and Health,
Penang, Malaysia, August 2004.
AFTA
and Tobacco Tax Policy (472KB PDF)
The National Legislators' Meeting
Manila, Philippines, August 2004
Economics
of Tobacco Control and Tobacco Tax Policy (500 KB PDF)
ITEN Activities
Beyond the Scope of Rockefller Funded South East Asia Tobacco Control
Initiative
ITEN organized several peer reviews for studies from the region:
- Macro-level study from Vietnam "Price Elasticity Estimations
for Cigarette Demand in Vietnam," prepared by Patrick Eozenou and
Burke Fishburn from the WHO Vietnam office.
- Micro-level study from Vietnam submitted for the Health Economics Journal.
- Study from Hong Kong looking at the effects of smoking ban in restaurants.
- Study from Japan analyzing a response of Japanese smokers to health
information.
- ITEN obtained funds from WHO (Emmanuel Guindon, Tobacco Free Initiative)
to peer-review an economic study on tobacco control in Thailand that was
commissioned by WHO.
World Bank Research Project in Indonesia
- ITEN participates in an ongoing WB research effort in Indonesia.
- ITEN Deputy Director presented at a a capacity building workshop in
Jakarta in 2002, Agenda
(12KB PDF)
- ITEN Deputy Director served as a reviewer for research proposals that
were submitted to the World Bank as part of this initiative. ITEN is mentoring
on e of the ongoing research efforts in the country. This study focuses
on the analysis of determinants of smoking behavior among adolescents
in East Java.
-
Information on Smoking in Indonesia
(168KB PDF)
TTURC
Project in Malaysia and Thailand
ITEN supports a regional project focusing on data collection in Malaysia
and Thailand. This effort is a part of the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use
Research Center (TTURC) initiative in the SEA region, Project 2, funded
by the National Institute of Health (NIH). More details on the TTURC activities
can be found at http://www.roswelltturc.org.
In May 2005 ITEN Deputy Director took part in a public hearing in Bangkok
that disseminated preliminary results from the TTURC data collection in
Thailand and Malaysia, Agenda
(8 KB PDF)
In support of the TTURC Initiative, ITEN Deputy Director conducted a part
of the TTURC workshop in Bangkok in May 2005 that focused on the economic
analysis of the data collected in Malaysia and Thailand. Dr. Ross presented
ITC
Data and Economics of Tobacco Control
(476KB PDF)
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