Categories
· Health/Science
· Cessation
· Tobacco Control
USA, by State
· New York
non-USA, by Country
· Dominican Republic
|
UR health program will join digital communications project
Jump to full article: Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle, 2002-10-07
Author: Michael Wentzel / Democrat and Chronicle
Intro: As part of an effort to cut tobacco use worldwide, University of Rochester Medical Center doctors and researchers will work with community leaders in the Dominican Republic to reduce smoking there.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded UR $1.9 million for the project. It is one of 14 grants worth $20 million made by the NIH to combat tobacco-caused illnesses and death in developing countries.
UR’s smoking-cessation project will utilize a unique system called “Little Intelligent Communities” or LINCOS that was developed, in part, by UR’s Center for Future Health to bring modern technology to rural and urban areas of developing countries.
More than a dozen people from UR and its James P. Wilmot Cancer Center, along with those in the Dominican Republic, will assess attitudes about tobacco use, train health care workers and provide smoking-cessation programs that are appropriate for the culture.
Jump to full article » |