Program Sustainability Assessment Tool

The Program Sustainability Assessment Tool helps individuals to assess their program’s current capacity for sustainability across a range of specific organizational and contextual factors. Participant responses will identify program sustainability strengths and challenges, and the results can then be used to guide sustainability action planning their program/s.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cphss/1060/thumbnail.jp

Policy Evidence Assessment Report: Community Health Worker Policy Components

This Policy Evidence Assessment Report from the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, summarizes the evidence base for components of Community Health Worker Policy. Many of these components are elements of successful CHW programs, which have implications for policy development, and some of these components can be found in state law.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cphss/1043/thumbnail.jp

2013 Evaluation Report

This report provides a summary of key evaluation findings for 2013 for the Missouri Foundation for Health’s Healthy & Active Communities (H&AC) initiative.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cphss/1073/thumbnail.jp

What is the Raising St. Louis Program Up To?

This brief report presents an overview of the Raising St. Louis program, including a timeline, a description of program participants, and program model and implementation.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cphss/1058/thumbnail.jp

STARS Policy Crosswalk

The Standardized Tobacco Assessment for Retail Settings (STARS) was designed as a user-friendly and concise tool to facilitate data collection for evidence-based tobacco control policies. This STARS Policy Crosswalk pairs items from STARS with relevant POS policies, and offers supplemental options from the six POS policy domains.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cphss/1110/thumbnail.jp

Program Sustainability Framework and Domain Descriptions

This one pager illustrates the Program Sustainability Framework and provides descriptions of all eight domains: political support, funding stability, partnerships, organizational capacity, program evaluation, program adaptation, communications, and strategic planning.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cphss/1059/thumbnail.jp

Advancing Science & Policy in the Retail Environment Timeline

This timeline presents ASPiRE research events within the context of policy development and implementation; industry actions; and reports, tools and evidence related to the tobacco retail environment.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cphss/1111/thumbnail.jp

Regulating Pharmacy Tobacco Sales: Massachusetts

Tobacco companies spend the overwhelming majority of their annual marketing budget at the point of sale (POS), an area in which they have enjoyed the greatest freedom from regulation. The POS refers to any location where tobacco products are advertised, displayed, and purchased. The POS encompasses not only the final point of purchase (i.e., the register) but also indoor and outdoor advertising at retail locations, product placement, and price. Tobacco companies use the retail environment to attract and retain customers by promoting their brands, increasing the likelihood of impulse product purchases and establishing the presence of tobacco products as commonplace in everyday life. Exposure to tobacco products and price discounts at the POS encourages initiation and discourages cessation. Finding solutions to POS issues is recognized as the fifth core strategy of tobacco control programming, along with: (1) raising cigarette excise taxes, (2) establishing smoke-free policies, (3) encouraging cessation, and (4) launching hard-hitting countermarketing campaigns. Since the 2009 passage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (FSPTCA), many states and communities are more actively considering policies in the retail environment. This report is the second in the series of case studies to highlight states and communities that are implementing innovative POS policies. The case studies are intended to provide tobacco control advocates with practical, real-world examples that may be used to inform future policy efforts. To learn about the processes, facilitators, and challenges of implementing and enforcing POS policies, we conducted in-depth interviews with key stakeholders. We also reviewed relevant literature, legal documents, and news articles. This case study focuses on prohibiting the sale of tobacco in health care institutions, including pharmacies, and highlights the 80 municipalities in Massachusetts that have successfully adopted such policies. In addition to describing Massachusetts\u27 efforts, the study provides a short background on tobacco-free pharmacy laws, legal considerations, and impacts on public health. States and communities considering similar policies can learn from Massachusetts\u27 experience and take away practical next steps to put an end to the practice of selling tobacco in pharmacies and other health care institutions.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cphss/1067/thumbnail.jp

Missouri County Profiles: Adult Tobacco Use and Smoke-Free Policies

This report book provides county-specific tobacco data to use in policy advocacy efforts. Data included are from the largest special survey ever conducted in Missouri. This data set is envisioned to be a catalyst for change in Missouri, identifying and describing the health of communities to better inform health professionals and policy makers.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cphss/1044/thumbnail.jp

Point-of-Sale Policy Successes: Three Community Case Studies

This brief report highlights case studies from three communities that have recently passed point-of-sale policies. Each provides a brief summary of the policy process and outlines the keys to success. Other communities can learn from these experiences and initiate similar policy work.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cphss/1109/thumbnail.jp