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Smoking and tobacco cessation
(Tabaquismo y cesación)
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Tools
(Herramientas)
- The American Legacy/ Community Voices Tobacco Initiative
A four-year initiative, which represents a partnership between the American Legacy and W.K. Kellogg Foundations, designed to improve access to tobacco prevention and cessation services for the nation's most underserved populations. Together the two foundations form a collaboration that cuts across the racial and ethnic lines to reach the nation's poorest communities in both rural and urban settings.
Sponsoring organization: American Legacy Foundation
- Healthfinder (en Español)
Healthfinder es un servicio del Departmento de la Salud y Humanos de los Estados Unidos
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- MedlinePlus: Dejar de fumar
Sponsoring organization: National Library of Medicine
- MedlinePlus: Fumar y los jóvenes
Sponsoring organization: National Library of Medicine
- Su Familia National Hispanic Family Health Helpline
Provides Hispanic consumers free reliable and confidential health information in Spanish and English and helps navigate callers through the health system. Nationwide resources and local referral services are provided depending on the need of the caller.
Sponsoring organization: National Alliance for Hispanic Health
Funding
(Financiamiento)
- American Recovery Reinvestment Act of 2009 Communities Putting Prevention to Work
Funding to reduce risk factors, prevent/delay chronic disease, promote wellness in children and adults, and provide positive, sustainable health change in communities.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Letter of Intent (Optional): Nov 6, 2009
Application Deadline:
Dec 1, 2009
Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications
(Publicaciones)
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Healthy Border 2010: An Agenda for Improving Health on the United States - Mexico Border
Provides an overview of a specific set of health indicators on the U.S. - Mexico border.
Sponsoring organization: United States - Mexico Border Health Commission
Date: 10 / 2003
Format: PDF
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Tobacco Control in Rural America
Examines tobacco-related disparities facing rural areas, socioeconomic and cultural conditions that cause these disparities, challenges to tobacco control and prevention efforts, and explores effective strategies that have shown measurable outcomes for tobacco control in rural America.
Date: 07 / 2009
Format: PDF
Organizations
(Organismos)
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San Diego-Tijuana Border Initiative
A bi-national coalition whose mission is to encourage closer collaboration among social and community service providers in the region with the specific intent of promoting institution building and policy development for issues of equal importance to both sides of the border. Includes a Binational Prevention Information Clearinghouse, a database of information about alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention materials. Information is available in Spanish.
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