The WHO MPOWER Package and the Tobacco Control Scale: Two Tools to Monitor Country-level Tobacco Control Policy Implementation in Latin America

Affiliations

• ¹ Tobacco Control Research Group, Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain; Center for Biomedical Research in Respiratory Diseases (CIBER en Enfermedades Respiratorias, CIBERES), Madrid, Spain.
• ² Tobacco Control Research Group, Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain; Center for Biomedical Research in Respiratory Diseases (CIBER en Enfermedades Respiratorias, CIBERES), Madrid, Spain; Tobacco Control Unit, WHO Collaborating Centre for Tobacco Control, Institut Català d'Oncologia, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain; School of Nursing, Campus Bellvitge, Universitat de Barcelona, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain; Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States.
• ³ Tobacco Control Research Group, Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain; Center for Biomedical Research in Respiratory Diseases (CIBER en Enfermedades Respiratorias, CIBERES), Madrid, Spain; Tobacco Control Unit, WHO Collaborating Centre for Tobacco Control, Institut Català d'Oncologia, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain; Center for Epidemiology & Health Policies, Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile.
• ⁴ Tobacco Control Research Group, Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain; Center for Biomedical Research in Respiratory Diseases (CIBER en Enfermedades Respiratorias, CIBERES), Madrid, Spain; Tobacco Control Unit, WHO Collaborating Centre for Tobacco Control, Institut Català d'Oncologia, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain; School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Campus Bellvitge, Universitat de Barcelona, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain. Electronic address: efernandez@iconcologia.net.