Zero tobacco – community intervention students’ health education at the University of Évora

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Published: Sep 18, 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2014.n1.v2.419
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Prevention smoking health education

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Jorge Bonito
Universidad de Evora

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Smoking is said by the World Health Organization as the leading cause of preventable disease and death. A comprehensive strategy to tackle this scourge includes treatment, control, prevention, awareness and information. In the area of prevention, counseling 3 min may have a success rate in smoking cessation than 2%, while a 10-minute brief advice could reach 3%. Given these principles, nursing students of Health Education in Evora University held semiannually brief counseling on smoking prevention in the city of Évora. This paper gives an account of the organizational structure of the community intervention and the alarming results of prevalence of intakes that met in the last three years.

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Bonito, J. (2014). Zero tobacco – community intervention students’ health education at the University of Évora. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD De Psicología., 2(1), 81–92. https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2014.n1.v2.419
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