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06/8 - Servizi territoriali per la cessazione dal fumo di tabacco i risultati di una ricerca nazionale.A cura dell’Osservatorio Fumo, Alcol e Droga2006, ix, 29 p.
Italian Smoking Cessation Services: the results of a national survey.
Edited by the Osservatorio Fumo, Alcol e Droga
2006, ix, 29 p. (in Italian)
The survey being presented, conducted between May 2003 and May 2004, relates the characteristics and activities of the Italian Smoking Cessation Services. A national standard form – with structural, organizational, procedural aspects and activities of the services – was sent to referents of local health boards and cessation services. The results obtained from 241 services of the national health system showed a considerable variability of the characteristics and in the typology of interventions. About half of the services adopted an integrated pharmacological and psychological support approach and only forty per cent owned a multidisciplinary medical team. In sixty-four per cent of the agencies, the treatment was partially paid by the patients and partly refunded by the national health system, while in twenty-six per cent was for free. This national-based survey and uniform methods for gathering homogeneous and comparable data, is the platform for the development of integrated, coordinated and efficient tobacco cessation strategies.
Key words: Tobacco, Smoking cessation services, Tobacco dependence, Treatment, Smoke cessation
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