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Local Public Health Programs |
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Statewide Programs |
- Develop clinical guidelines for targeted cancers
- Fund
local jurisdictions to implement cancer prevention, education
and screening
- Conduct regional training and provide assistance
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- Fund statewide skin cancer prevention
- Promote sun protection activities
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Surveillance and Evaluation |
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Academic Research Centers |
- Collect standardized data on cancer education,
screening and diagnosis activities
in each jurisdiction
- Publish Annual Cancer Report
- Collect, analyze, interpret and disseminate cancer
data
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- Fund translational cancer research at Johns
Hopkins and University of Maryland
- Fund Maryland Statewide Health
Network
- Fund tobacco-related diseases research
- Speed cancer research findings to practice.
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Tobacco-Use Prevention and
Cessation Program |
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Local Public Health Programs |
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Statewide Programs |
- Establish community coalitions to work with counties
- Fund awareness, prevention and cessation
- Conduct regional training and provide assistance
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- Provide technical assistance on cessation
- Provide legal resource and assistance
- Manage a statewide quit line and program
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Surveillance and Evaluation |
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Countermarketing and Media |
- Collect, analyze and disseminate tobacco data
- Distribute best practices to local programs
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- Market smoking cessation and Quitline
- Promote smoking avoidance statewide.
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Minority Outreach and Technical
Assistance (MOTA)
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Increase Minorities on County Tobacco
and Cancer Health Coalitions |
- Educate, recruit, and support attendance by Hispanic/Latino,
African American, Asian and Native Americans
- Attend health coalition meetings and actively participate
to promote awareness and services to minorities
- Present the MOTA program at the local health coalition
meetings, local boards of health and other settings
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Link County Health Departments to Minority
Groups |
- Collaborate with county health department staff in presenting
cancer and tobacco education to minorities
- Convene health education events in minority communities
to increase awareness of healthy behaviors
- Sponsor health workshops using health department staff
and other health professionals as presenters
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Promote Cancer and Tobacco Awareness
and Screening |
- Take education and awareness messages into hard to reach
and remote segments of minority communities
- Translate materials into culturally acceptable messages
that are age and gender relevant
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Decrease Cancer and Tobacco Disparities
Among Minorities |
- Seek out pockets of minority communities where screenings
are low and health behaviors need support
- Assist local health department staff in bringing messages
to diverse communities
- Penetrate all sectors of each community; locate gatekeepers
to assist in presenting health messages.
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