The 5th ENYPAT Spring School was organised 14 - 18 March 2005 in Helsinki.
The Spring School is a one-week training course to European health professionals about smoking prevention in youth. The aim is to build capacities to develop smoking prevention and cessation programmes for young people. The Spring School contains lectures, group work and evaluation.
Content
1) Current knowledge about youth and
- health consequences of smoking
- epidemiology of tobacco use
- psychosocial risk factors for smoking
- smoking prevention and cessation
2) Feasibility and impacts of existing European level programmes
3) Other important areas, such as
- tobacco control policies
- advertising and media issues about tobacco use
- tobacco industry initiatives etc