The Councils of Municipal Health Secretariats and the National Tobacco Control Policy: a necessary approach
Erica Cavalcanti,
Lucas Manoel da Silva Cabral,
Vera Lúcia Gomes Borges
et al.
Abstract:Tobacco-related diseases burden the entire public health system, at the three levels of governance: municipal, state and federal. The insertion of the theme of tobacco control in state and municipal Health Secretariats is historic, being present since the initial debates on the health, social, economic and environmental damage that smoking causes to the Brazilian population as a cycle of diseases, poverty and deaths precocious. This article aims to present the importance of articulating the National Tobacco Co… Show more
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