Tobacco-Free Initiative, Regional Office for the South-East Asia, World Health Organization, India.
Tobacco Free Initiative, Department of Health Promotion, WHO HQ, Switzerland.
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2021 Nov 1;22(S2):71-80. doi: 10.31557/APJCP.2021.22.S2.71.
The WHO MPOWER package is a set of six evidence-based and cost-effective measures which was introduced on 7 February 2008 to facilitate the implementation of the provisions of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control at the ground level. These measures are: Monitoring tobacco use and prevention policies (M); Protecting people from tobacco smoke (P); Offering help to quit tobacco use (O); Warning about the dangers of tobacco (W); Enforcing bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship (E); and Raising taxes on tobacco (R). Since its launch, the MPOWER package has become the guiding principle for all the countries of the South-East Asia Region in their crusade against the tobacco epidemic. This review article tracks the implementation of the MPOWER measures in the 11 member countries of the Region based on the last seven WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic (GTCR), i.e., GTCR2/2009-GTCR8/2021. This is with an aim to enable the countries to review their progress in implementing the MPOWER measures and to take steps to improve their advancement towards reducing the demand for tobacco products at the country level.
世界卫生组织的“MPOWER 包”是一套六项基于证据和具有成本效益的措施，于 2008 年 2 月 7 日推出，旨在促进在实地落实《世界卫生组织烟草控制框架公约》的各项规定。这六项措施是：监测烟草使用和预防政策（M）；保护人们免受烟草烟雾危害（P）；提供戒烟帮助（O）；警示烟草危害（W）；执行禁止烟草广告、促销和赞助（E）；提高烟草税（R）。自推出以来，“MPOWER 包”已成为东南亚区域所有国家打击烟草流行战役的指导原则。本文根据世卫组织最近七份《全球烟草流行报告》（GTCR），即 GTCR2/2009-GTCR8/2021，追踪了该区域 11 个成员国实施“MPOWER 包”各项措施的情况。这是为了使各国能够审查在实施“MPOWER 包”各项措施方面的进展情况，并采取步骤改善其在减少国家一级烟草制品需求方面的进展情况。
