Need for Smoking Cessation Support for Better Health of Employees

Negotiating Change: Ideas, Institutions, and Political Actors in Tobacco Control Policy Making in Mauritius

“…It is against this backdrop that this article seeks to explain how tobacco control rose to prominence in the government policy agenda. The existing literature either evaluates the efficacy of a specific tobacco control instrument or examines the negative health effects of smoking on the Mauritian people (see Azagba et al 2015;Cox et al 2000;López et al 2011;Ross et al 2018;Sun, Erriah, and Ramasawmy 2014;Tumwine 2011). Burhoo, Mohee, and Moussa (2011) have attempted a political economic explanation of Mauritius's tobacco control policies; however, their explanation was conducted with no theoretical discussion of the policy-making process.…”