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State Adoption of 100% Smoke-Free Acute Non Federal Hospital Campus Policies

To assess the number and percentage of acute care hospitals in the U.S. that have adopted smoke-free hospital campus (SFHC) policies, researchers conducted an assessment from January 2008 to May 2008 of available data on SFHC policy adoption in each state. Slightly more than one third (34.4%) of acu...

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Autores principales: Goldstein, Adam O., Steiner, Julea, McCullough, Anna, Kramer, Kathryn D., Okun, Melva Fager
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2800063/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20049224
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph6112793
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Sumario:To assess the number and percentage of acute care hospitals in the U.S. that have adopted smoke-free hospital campus (SFHC) policies, researchers conducted an assessment from January 2008 to May 2008 of available data on SFHC policy adoption in each state. Slightly more than one third (34.4%) of acute care, non-Federal hospitals had adopted such policies, with wide variation of policy adoption between states.