CINDI Highlights • Number 8 - Health Promotion Agency
CINDI Highlights • Number 8 - Health Promotion Agency
CINDI Highlights • Number 8 - Health Promotion Agency
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Turkmenistan<br />
Dr Rustam Kazimov<br />
Programme Director<br />
The year’s highlights included activities focused on<br />
tobacco control, youth education, physical activity<br />
and intersectional partnership strengthening.<br />
Tobacco control<br />
The 2002 Quit & Win smoking cessation campaign was<br />
held for the fourth time. More than 2,800 smokers tried to<br />
quit smoking during the campaign, with 90% of participants<br />
registered by family doctors directly. The competition<br />
finished on 31 May with a concert of amateur artists from<br />
medical schools and a prize presentation to the winners and to medical<br />
institutions which registered the most participants.<br />
With support from the WHO Regional Office for Europe, a resource centre on<br />
tobacco control was established to assist the Framework Convention on<br />
Tobacco Control (FCTC) with the aim of improving activities on tobacco<br />
control in the country. A seminar was held jointly with the Saglyk national<br />
centre for regional press-centers on the subject of tobacco control problems<br />
and solutions.<br />
Youth education<br />
Additional literature on healthy lifestyle issues and popular periodicals for<br />
young people were added to the library of the <strong>CINDI</strong> information centre. A<br />
series of booklets on nutrition, physical activity, smoking prevention among<br />
young people and methods of smoking cessation was produced.<br />
Physical activity<br />
In collaboration with the country’s Olympics committee, work on improving<br />
access of young people to sport was carried out. Participation in an<br />
international conference ‘Education through sport’ in Wiesbaden took place<br />
and a publication of the same name was produced with strategic cooperation<br />
for the objective being defined.<br />
With the aim of encouraging sport among children, the <strong>CINDI</strong> team also<br />
issued monthly tennis bulletins.<br />
Inspection of the selection of physical activity representatives, covering 2,500<br />
people in five regions of the country, was made with the support of the<br />
WHO Regional Office for Europe.<br />
Intersectional partnership<br />
There was <strong>CINDI</strong>-Turkmenistan participation in the World Bank assembly ‘Civil<br />
society driving development’ in Belgrade in support of the nongovernmental<br />
organisations (NGOs) sector development. As a result, a coordination council<br />
was created and consultations carried out with NGOs operating in the health<br />
protection sector. There was also active work and collaboration on<br />
strengthening the NGOs’ role in prevention of noncommunicable diseases<br />
and promotion of healthy lifestyles.<br />
Further information<br />
The <strong>CINDI</strong> Programme in Turkmenistan is managed by the Educational<br />
Information Centre for <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Promotion</strong> and Prevention. General management<br />
is by the Ministry of <strong>Health</strong> and the medical industry. For more information,<br />
please contact the <strong>CINDI</strong> Director, Dr Rustam Kazimov, Chief, Turkmenistan<br />
Research Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine, Educational and<br />
Information Centre, <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Promotion</strong> and Prevention Ul, 1 Maya 31, Ashgabat<br />
744006, Turkmenistan. Tel/fax: +993 12 44 47 65;<br />
E-mail: prevhealth@cpart.asb.tm
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