CINDI Highlights • Number 8 - Health Promotion Agency

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Russian Federation
Professor Rafael
Oganov
Programme Director
CINDI Russia includes 18 regional programmes with
four new regions applying to join the programme. The
following activities were developed over the year:
healthy nutrition policy development, programme
system development for monitoring behavioural risk
factors, and the Quit & Win smoking cessation
campaign.
Healthy nutrition policy
Capacity development for assessment of actual nutrition among adults and
children from newborn to five years of age was continued in the northern cities
of Arkhangelsk and Murmansk. The report on nutrition and risk factors surveys
was put onto the WHO website. Methodology on nutrition assessment among
children from newborn to five years was developed. Surveys in the two cities
were conducted. WHO/UNICEF recommendations on healthy nutrition for
children were adopted and will be published in Russian for all CINDI Russia
centres.
Smoking
The fifth population-based Quit & Win smoking cessation campaign was
organised in Russia and 42,000 smokers joined the campaign. The campaign
was organised through central mass media and in 28 centres at regional and
local level. The campaign covered more than 28 million people, of whom
seven million were smokers over 18. The response rate among smokers was
0.6%.
For the first time an Internet site www.quitandwin.ru was established for
registration of Russian participants. More than 3,000 health professionals
participated in the campaign. The campaign was funded primarily from local
funds and partially by WHO and the Pharmacia pharmaceutical company.
Behavioural risk factors (BRF)
The guidelines on how to monitor behavioural risk factors were developed.
The Ministry of Health endorsed the guidelines for implementation in the
Russian Federation. Eleven CINDI regions carried out BRF surveys and the
data files were submitted to the CINDI Russia Coordinating Centre, Moscow.
A report of the Moscow survey was published and disseminated among
CINDI centres and health authorities.
Hypertension management
The 11-year collaboration between CINDI Pitkaranta (Karelia) and
CINDI Finland on high blood pressure control showed its first signs of
success. More people control high blood pressure effectively and, as a result,
systolic blood pressure has been decreased in the population.
Further information
The CINDI Programme in Russia is managed by the National Centre for
Preventive Medicine, Department of Policy and Strategy Development and
Health Promotion. For more information, please contact the CINDI Programme
Director, Professor Rafael G Oganov, CINDI Executive Director Professor Igor
S Glasunov, or CINDI Russia Coordinator, Dr Tatyana V Kamardina,
Petroverigsky Str.,10, 101953 Moscow, Russia. Tel/fax: +7 095 924 8988;
E-mail: cindirus@online.ru, oganov@online.ru or glasunov@comtv.ru
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1. ‘Quit & Win’ winners draw, 31 May 2002