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The tcrc works in partnership with national
medical associations across Europe, supporting them in their
efforts to educate their members, help patients and inform
public policy with respect to tobacco. It also acts a resource
for individual doctors who are interested or involved in
tobacco control.
Although the main focus of the TCRC is the European medical
profession, much of its work is also relevant to health
workers and tobacco control advocates throughout the world.
development of tcrc
The Centre was established in 1997 by the European Forum
Medical Associations (EFMA). The tcrc is funded by the Europe
Against Cancer Programme of the European Commission and
the British Medical Association, and receives other support
from national medical associations and from WHO.
Tobacco is the single greatest preventable cause of illness
and death in Europe. The tcrc's evidence to these hearings
is motivated by both European medical professionals' firsthand
knowledge of the human misery and suffering caused by tobacco,
and their ethical responsibility to act to protect their
patients and improve the public health.
The tcrc's main partners are 59 national medical associations
across the 51 member states of the WHO European Region.
These associations represent almost 2 million doctors across
the Region - more than 60% of the European medical profession.
(Information
on EFMA member associations)
The TCRC's mission is to help
realise the enormous potential of doctors in tobacco control,
by:
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promoting tobacco control
-
supporting national medical associations in
their tobacco control activities
-
providing an information database
-
encouraging doctors to stop smoking
- improving doctors' skills in smoking cessation
The TCRC's work focuses on
four key activities:
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compiling an information database on tobacco
-
commissioning and publishing materials especially
designed for the medical profession
-
co-ordinating a Europe-wide study of doctors'
smoking habits and monitoring the tobacco control activities
of EFMA member association
-
organising tobacco control workshops
The Tobacco Control Resource
Centre is a project of the European Forum of Medical Associations
and WHO (EFMA).
The TCRC is based at the British Medical Association in
Edinburgh.
The TCRC is funded by the 'Europe Against Cancer' programme
of the European Commission and from the BMA. The TCRC also
receives support from other European medical associations.
To find out more about EFMA, use the links to go to these
sections of the tcrc Web Site:
To find out more about the 'Europe Against Cancer' programme
and the European Regional Office of the World Health Organisation.
Use the links to take you to their Web Sites:
The TCRC Tobacco Control Advisory
Group
The advisory group meets regularly to provide broad guidance
on activities and priorities of the project. The group includes
members of five national medical associations from across
Europe, as well as representatives of our main partners:
The Group is chaired by Sir Alexander Macara, who also
chairs the EFMA Tobacco Action Group.
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