Publication: Stakeholder’s assessment of the awareness and effectiveness of smoke-free law in Thailand
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2018-10-01
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23225939
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Mahidol University
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International Journal of Health Policy and Management. Vol.7, No.10 (2018), 919-922
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Nipapun Kungskulniti, Siriwan Pitayarangsarit, Stephen L. Hamann Stakeholder’s assessment of the awareness and effectiveness of smoke-free law in Thailand. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. Vol.7, No.10 (2018), 919-922. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2018.47 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/46269
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Stakeholder’s assessment of the awareness and effectiveness of smoke-free law in Thailand
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© 2018 The Author(s); Published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences. Background: This study reports stakeholders’ ratings, and perceived gaps in World Health Organization’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Article 8 implementation in Thailand viewed against WHO’s Guidelines for Article 8 and to inform action in preparing the 2017 Tobacco Product Control Act.� Methods: Stakeholder ratings of Guideline provisions of Article 8 on a three-tiered scale of implementation from understanding to effectiveness and efficiency were used to identify gaps in enforcement and compliance important to success in meeting Article 8 goals. This stakeholder assessment occurred through a stakeholder meeting of 55 stakeholders in Bangkok, Thailand in June 2016. Results: The average of all assessment ratings by stakeholders on an ascending 0-3 scale had a mean score of 1.67, which means the level of implementation for Article 8 in Thailand was rated less than effective for enforcement. The assessment shows that the public understanding of smoke-free principles is also poor at a mean of 1.28, that there is incomplete effectiveness of smoke-free measures with a mean of 1.75, and only a general effectiveness that smoke-free protections are adequately covering most places with a mean of 1.98. More needs to be done to make all places compliant through enforcement efforts rated with a mean of only 1, and that more is necessary for protection from tobacco-smoke exposure in other public places and in private vehicles with mean ratings of 1.71 and 1.14. Conclusion: This stakeholder approach using a three-tiered rating scale found that the implementation of Article 8 in Thailand is still lacking. With this approach, stakeholders identified critical issues needing improvement and informed changes in the then-proposed Tobacco Product Control Act which later was adopted in 2017.