Modelling Intervention and Strategy Effects
Start Date: April 2011
Expected Date of Completion: March 2013 (phase 1)
Principal Investigator and Project Lead: Robert Schwartz
Principal Investigators Involved: Sue Bondy, Joanna Cohen, Roberta Ferrence, John Garcia
Project Team: Bo Zhang
Source of Funding: Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Project Description
System Dynamics Models allow policymakers to forecast the effects of strengthening existing policies, adopting new policies, and weakening or reversing policy measures. This multi-year project is developing a model to simulate the effects of tobacco control interventions on initiation, consumption, quitting and possibly on morbidity and mortality in Ontario.
Methodology
Survey of Public Health Unit Tobacco Control Activity
Start Date: April 2012
Expected Date of Completion: March 2013
Principal Investigator and Project Lead: K. Stephen Brown
Principal Investigators Involved: Sue Bondy, John Garcia, Robert Schwartz
Source of Funding: Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Project Description
For our Strategy Evaluation and for SFO planning purposes there is a need for specific information about what Public Health Units are doing in tobacco control beyond Smoke-Free Ontario funded activity. The Comprehensive Local Tobacco Control Index (CLTCI) developed two years ago will be adapted and implemented as a cross sectional survey.
Main Research Question
What tobacco control activities are currently undertaken by Ontario’s Public Health Units?
Methodology
Survey
Learning How Comprehensive Tobacco Control Strategies Work in Practice
Start Date: September 2012
Expected Date of Completion: April 2013
Principal Investigator: Robert Schwartz
Co-investigators: Michael Chaiton, Jolene Dubray, Shawn O’Connor
Source of Funding: Institute for Global Tobacco Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with Funds from the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use
Project Description
The World Health Organization has guided FCTC signatories to focus comprehensive tobacco control efforts on the MPOWER package of six evidence-informed intervention areas: M (Monitoring); P (Protect) – Smoke-free environments; O (Offer) – Cessation programmes; W (Warn) – warning labels and mass media; E (enforce) – Advertising bans; and R (raise taxes) – Taxation. While there is evidence for each of these policies, little is known about how well they work together when applied under different contexts or how additional interventions may affect the achievement of desired outcomes.
Scope
Data collected to monitor progress in MPOWER implementation and in achieving declines in tobacco use in 173 countries afford an opportunity to learn about how different configurations of MPOWER implementation (scope, intensity, duration) are associated with successful outcomes.
Main Research Questions & Methodology
Stage One
Stage Two
Performance Measurement and Evaluation Services for the Saskatchewan Tobacco Strategy
Start Date: August 2010
Expected Date of Completion: July 2013
Principal Investigator: Robert Schwartz
Project Team: Emily DiSante
Source of Funding: Saskatchewan Ministry of Health
Project Description
The Saskatchewan Tobacco Reduction Strategy adopts a comprehensive approach to advancing the three classic tobacco control goals of prevention, protection and cessation. To support Strategy implementation and further development, the Ministry of Health and partners have recognized the need to develop and implement a Performance Measurement and Evaluation Plan (PMEP). The PMEP will provide a stream of evaluative information to inform ongoing management and future decisions with an aim to maximizing the effects of the Strategy on reducing tobacco use in Saskatchewan.
Scope
Multi‐faceted evaluation and performance measurement is underway. This approach assesses the relative contribution of particular tobacco control activities and focus areas towards achieving desired initial, intermediate and long‐term outcomes of the Strategy.
