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Revista Salud Uninorte
Print version ISSN 0120-5552On-line version ISSN 2011-7531
Abstract
LOPEZ-RIOS, JENNIFER MARCELA; SCARINCI, ISABEL CRISTINA and GARCES-PALACIO, ISABEL C.. An Examination of the World Health Organization MPOWER Tobacco Control Indicators from a Gender Perspective in Antioquia, Colombia. Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2023, vol.39, n.2, pp.419-442. Epub Mar 14, 2024. ISSN 0120-5552. https://doi.org/10.14482/sun.39.02.155.821.
Objective:
To examine women's perceptions of the implementation and enforcement of the Colombian national tobacco legislation in Antioquia, Colombia, through the lens of the MPOWER indicators, which is the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control guide.
Methods:
This was a cross-sectional study with a representative sample of women over 18 years of age in the nine subregions of Antioquia, using a multi-stage probabilistic sampling.
Results:
Out of 4,383 women who participated in the study, only 35% were aware of Law 1335, with awareness being the highest among white and married participants with college degrees, who have private health insurance, or residents in middle and high socioeconomic status. The degree of implementation varied across subregions, and participants perceived that monitoring tobacco consumption (M) and protecting the population from tobacco smoke (P) have high levels of implementation in Antioquia, while warnings about the dangers of tobacco use (W) and enforcing the prohibitions on advertising, promotion, and sponsorship (E) are weak. In terms of offering help for quitting (O), only 8.5% of smokers or former smokers ever sought assistance from health professionals to quit smoking and, among those, only 2% received treatment covered by their health insurance plan.
Conclusions:
Even though tobacco control legislation is established at the national level, its enforcement relies heavily on local strategies. In Antioquia, efforts should be placed on educational strategies regarding warnings of the harms associated with tobacco use, enforcement of advertising and promotion of tobacco products, and provision of evidence-based tobacco cessation treatments.
Keywords : Control and Sanitary Supervision of Tobacco-Derived Products; Consumption of Tobacco-Derived Products; women's health; Antioquia; Colombia; legislation.