A Model DOD Systems Approach for Tobacco Cessation

Abstract

While tobacco use in the military costs over $584 million per year in health related expenses, 29.9% of our enlisted forces continue to smoke (Helyer, Brehm, & Perino, 1995; Bray, Sanchez, Ornstein, et al., 1999). The primary objective of this study is to evaluated the efficacy o a community initiative on smoking prevalence among active duty personnel and TRICARE Prime beneficiaries. Sixteen military installations (eight each from the Air Force and Army) have been assigned to either an intervention or delayed intervention condition. At the end of the third year of the study, project accomplishments include implementing, monitoring and modifying the intervention at four Air Force sites, creating all the necessary components of the community campaign, identifying and randomly assigning Army and remaining Air Force sites.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA423476

Entities

People

  • Harry A. Lando

Organizations

  • University of Minnesota

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Active Duty
  • Air Force
  • Biomedical Research
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Mail
  • Health Care
  • Information Operations
  • Intervention
  • Materials
  • Military Personnel
  • Minnesota
  • Monitoring
  • Personnel Management
  • Systems Approach
  • Urban Areas

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