GOAL III: HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
Health care professionals will have up-to-date knowledge and skills pertaining to spit tobacco and will use these skills with increased frequency to provide quality prevention and cessation education and services.
(note: evaluation activities are included in Goal I)
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Objective A: Increase the knowledge, enhance the skills, and improve the
practices of health care professionals regarding spit tobacco education,
prevention, and cessation. |
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Strategy 1: Increase the availability and accessibility of affordable
educational offerings for health care professionals which are designed to
address spit tobacco education, epidemiology, health effects, user
identification, risk groups, and prevention and cessation strategies and
services.
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Strategy 2: Implement a train-the-trainer initiative for health care
professionals to disseminate spit tobacco prevention and cessation
education to youth and adult influencers.
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Strategy 3: Reduce spit tobacco use among health care professionals to
improve their effectiveness as adult influencers in providing quality
prevention and cessation education and services.
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Objective B: Increase the level of competency of health care professional
students in spit tobacco education, user identification, prevention, and
cessation.
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Strategy 1: Assess the spit tobacco content in curricula of dental,
medical, and nurse training programs.
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Strategy 2: Address spit tobacco content deficiencies in curricula of
dental, medical, and nurse training programs.
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