PubMed · 10151099
Awakening the sleeping giant: mainstreaming efforts to decrease tobacco use in an HMO.
Abstract
Group Health Cooperative (GHC) of Puget Sound is developing, within a framework of quality improvement, a comprehensive population-based approach to decreasing the prevalence of tobacco use. Broad organizational support has been obtained, centralized support is being integrated with clinic-level activity, local ownership of outcomes is encouraged with empowerment of health care teams, and support for community and policy-based activities is being provided. GHC's smoking prevalence has decreased from 25% to 15.5% over the past decade, while the state of Washington's prevalence declined from 23.7% to 21.8%.
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T McAfee, J Wilson, S Dacey, N Sofian, S Curry, B Wagener. 1995. Awakening the sleeping giant: mainstreaming efforts to decrease tobacco use in an HMO.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10151099/
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