scholarly journals Planning the Location of Stop Smoking Services at the Local Level: A Geographic Analysis

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie N. Tomintz ◽  
Graham P. Clarke ◽  
Janette E. Rigby
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Stop Smoking ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Small Area Level ◽  
Stop Smoking Services ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Location Strategies

AbstractSmoking is one of the major causes of premature death and its negative effects on a person's health are a global issue. Therefore, the United Kingdom has introduced new policies aimed at reducing the proportion of smokers from 26% in 2005 down to 21% by 2010. One mechanism to meet this policy target is the provision of stop smoking services. This article aims to estimate the Leeds smoking population at the small area level and especially to highlight the distribution of hard-to-reach groups such as heavy smokers (> 20 cigarettes/day) and pregnant women who smoke. Then optimal location strategies are discussed in relation to stop smoking services. The findings show the importance of adding a spatial component to find out where the smoking population or specific subgroups of smokers are to support policymakers or healthcare planners who are responsible for the planning process of the services.

scholarly journals Evaluating clinical stop-smoking services globally: Proposal for a minimum data set

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew L. Skinner ◽  
Robert West ◽  
Martin Raw ◽  
Emma Anderson ◽  
Marcus R. Munafò
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Minimum Data Set ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Minimum Data ◽  
Stop Smoking ◽  
Smoking Cessation Services ◽  
Stop Smoking Services

AbstractBackground and aimsBehavioural and pharmacological support for smoking cessation improves the chances of success and represents a highly cost-effective way of preventing chronic disease and premature death. There are a large number of clinical stop-smoking services around the world. These could be connected into a global network to provide data to assess what treatment components are most effective, for what populations, in what settings. This requires data to be collected according to a minimum standard set of data items. This paper sets out a proposal for this global minimum data set.MethodsWe reviewed sets of data items used in clinical services that have already benefited from standardised approaches to using data. We identified client and treatment data items that may directly or indirectly influence outcome, and outcome variables that were practicable to obtain in clinical practice. We then consulted service providers in countries that may have an interest in taking part in a global network of smoking cessation services, and revised the sets of data items according to their feedback.ResultsThree sets of data items are proposed. The first is a set of features characterising treatments offered by a service. The second is a core set of data items describing clients’ characteristics, engagement with the service, and outcomes. The third is an extended set of client data items to be captured in addition to the core data items wherever resources permit.ConclusionsWe propose minimum standards for capturing data from clinical smoking cessation services globally. This could provide a basis for meaningful evaluations of different smoking cessation treatments in different populations in a variety of settings across many countries.

scholarly journals Urban and Spatial Planning: Pragmatic Considerations for Plan Implementation Improvements (A Case Study of the City of Bor)

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824402199455
Author(s):  
Dragana S. Nikolić ◽  
Marijana D. Pantić ◽  
Vesna T. Jokić
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Plan Implementation ◽  
Implementation Phase ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
The Government ◽  
Local Government Budget

The main task of planning documents is to achieve maximal rationality in the use of space, spatial resources, and balanced territorial development. The preparation of plans is regulated by a legislative framework, which embraces multiple phases and stakeholders. In a perfect planning process, it would be expected that all the elements are well coordinated and brought to common understanding, but in reality, obstacles and challenges can occur in any of these steps, especially in the implementation phase. Although a plan is fully prepared to be practiced, its implementation might be omitted. Therefore, this article analyzes the full process of spatial and urban planning from the perspective of plan implementation. The methodology is based on a combination of different data collection methods (interviews, fieldwork, direct observation) with the analysis of plans and the particular mention of those plans that picture the implementation issues the most. Also, legislative acts and semi-annual and annual reports on the achievements of the local government budget are analyzed. The approach indicates that plan implementation depends the most on the willingness of the government to perform changes in the system and to peruse punitive policy comprehensively. Although it is about implementation at the local level, the success primarily depends on clear definitions given in the legislative acts, freedom of the local communities to make their own decisions, and financial decentralization, side by side with the regional and local circumstances, institutional technical and staff capacities, and application of participatory planning that involves actors from various sectors.

How to Measure Client Satisfaction With Stop Smoking Services: A Pilot Project in the UK National Health Service

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia May ◽  
Andy McEwen ◽  
Helen Arnoldi ◽  
Linda Bauld ◽  
Janet Ferguson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Health ◽  
Client Satisfaction ◽  
Survey Methodology ◽  
Smoking Status ◽  
Intraclass Correlation ◽  
Face Validity ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Stop Smoking ◽  
Stop Smoking Services ◽  
Service To Others

AbstractThis pilot study aimed to develop a tool and methodology for measuring client satisfaction in UK National Health (NHS) Stop Smoking Services (SSS). A brief postcard questionnaire (measuring overall satisfaction with the service, willingness to recommend the service to others and smoking status) and a complete questionnaire (with 20 additional items measuring satisfaction with specific elements of the service) were developed. An NHS SSS mailed the postcard to 298 clients who had set a quit date in the previous quarter, they mailed the complete questionnaire to a subsample of 99 clients. Overall 34% (100/298) of those surveyed responded: 30% (90/298) for the card and 25% (25/99) for the questionnaire (15 people responded to both). Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) were found to be acceptable for both the overall service satisfaction item (ICC value = .43, p = .05) and the item regarding recommending the service to others (ICC-value = .83, p < .001). Hence the tool had reliability and at least face validity and the survey methodology proved practicable. The small modifications made to service delivery and the need for future research are discussed.

Territorial Governance of EU Cross-Border Renewable Energy Cooperation: A Soluble or Turbulent Model in the Current Framework?

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-97
Author(s):  
Melis Aras
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Cross Border

The energy transition in Europe requires not only the implementation of technological innovations to reduce carbon emissions but also the decentralised extension of these innovations throughout the continent, as demonstrated by the ‘Clean Energy for All Europeans’ package. However, decentralised energy generation, and specifically electricity generation, as it gives rise to new players and interactions, also requires a review of the energy planning process. In this sense, governance becomes the key concept for understanding the implementation of the energy transition in a territory. This is particularly visible in a cross-border setting, especially considering cross-border cooperation in the development of renewable energy sources (RES) provides the necessary elements to determine the criteria of local regulation between the different levels of governance. In light of the current legal framework in France, this paper presents the institutional framework of the multi-level governance of the RES development planning process. It concludes that it is quite conceivable for the rationales of governance at the local level (decentralisation) and the large-scale operation of a large interconnected network (Europeanisation) to coexist.

scholarly journals Associations between Practitioner Personality and Client Quit Rates in Smoking Cessation Behavioural Support Interventions

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather L. Gainforth ◽  
Sarita Y. Aujla ◽  
Emma Beard ◽  
Emma Croghan ◽  
Robert West
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
Outcome Measure ◽  
Success Rates ◽  
Specific Training ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Quit Smoking ◽  
Stop Smoking ◽  
Random Intercept ◽  
Stop Smoking Services ◽  
Multi Level

Introduction:There is wide variation in the success rates of practitioners employed to help smokers to stop, even once a range of potential confounding factors has been taken into account.Aim:This paper examined whether personality characteristics of practitioners might play a role success rates.Methods:Data from 1,958 stop-smoking treatment episodes in two stop-smoking services (SSS) involving 19 stop-smoking practitioners were used in the analysis. The outcome measure was clients’ biochemically verified quit status 4 weeks after the target quit date. The five dimensions of personality, as assessed by the Ten-Item Personality Inventory, were included as predictor variables: openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion, and neuroticism. A range of client and other practitioner characteristics were used as covariates. A sensitivity analysis was conducted to determine if managers' ratings of practitioner personality were also associated with clients’ quit status.Results:Multi-level random intercept models indicated that clients of practitioners with a higher extraversion score had greater odds of being abstinent at four weeks (self-assessed: OR = 1.10, 95% CI = 1.01–1.19; manager-assessed: OR = 1.32, 95% CI = 1.21–1.44).Conclusions:More extraverted stop smoking practitioners appear to have greater success in advising their clients to quit smoking. Findings need to be confirmed in larger practitioner populations, other SSS, and in different smoking cessation contexts. If confirmed, specific training may be needed to assist more introverted stop smoking practitioners.

scholarly journals Pengembangan Perencanaan Pendidikan Islam (Konsep Strategi Pengembangan Di Indonesia)

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-307
Author(s):  
Dwi Priyanto
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Educational Planning ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Education Planning ◽  
Strategic Factor ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Planning Development

Abstract: Planning is a very important and strategic factor of its nature as a guide for the implementation of an activity in order to achieve the desired goals or objectives. Planning process as a series of activities is undertook to prepare a decision on what is expected to occur and what will be done. In the field of Islamic education, planning is one key factor for the effectiveness of the implementation of educational activities, national and local level. But in practice of the Islamic education implementation, educational planning is viewed as complementary factors, so objectives are not achieved maximally. The importance of planning development strategies of Islamic education in Indonesia is due to the implementation of Islamic education in Indonesia still needs to be done a repositioning effort, so that Islamic education can truly achieve its goals. Keywords: Strategy development and Islamic educational planning.

scholarly journals Self-managing socialism and urban planning: The case study of general plan of Belgrade 1972

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-94
Author(s):  
Jelena Radosavljević
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Planning Practice ◽  
General Plan ◽  
Managing System ◽  
The Impact

This paper aims to open up a discussion about relations between former Yugoslavia's socialism and planning practice resulting from self-managing system established in early 1950s. Although this system was applied through a top-down approach, it implied, at least allegedly, coordination, integration and democratic harmonisation of particular interests with common and general ones on local level. The paper will briefly review the history and concept of socialist ideology and consider the impact that it had on institutional arrangements evolution and planning practice in Serbia. It will then touch on the role of ideology for urban planning process at the local level, understanding self-managing planning principles, their benefits, role and significance in planning practice.

scholarly journals Slimming World in Stop Smoking Services (SWISSS): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Lycett ◽  
Paul Aveyard ◽  
Andrew Farmer ◽  
Amanda Lewis ◽  
Marcus Munafò
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
Study Protocol ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Stop Smoking ◽  
Stop Smoking Services

Giving up smoking: how doctors can help

1975 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cigarette Smoking ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
Preventive Health Care ◽  
Western World ◽  
Stop Smoking ◽  
Care Health ◽  
Education Campaigns ◽  
One Year ◽  
Personal Advice ◽  
Do So

Cigarette smoking remains the most important preventable cause of premature death in the western world How best to help adults to give up cigarettes and stop the young from starting is unknown. If all doctors gave up cigarette smoking the example might be their most useful contribution to preventive health care. Health Education campaigns and anti-smoking clinics have had little success. Yet about one out of every four patients can stop after firm unequivocal advice from the doctor to do so.1 Where motivation was increased by a recent myocardial infarction, 62% of patients were persuaded by their doctor to stop for at least one year.2 No method is known to be more effective than this personal advice from doctor to patient, yet many patients have never been told by their doctor to stop smoking, even for chronic bronchitis or ischaemic heart disease.

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