VA in the vanguard
Subtitle: building on success in smoking cessation
By: Stephen L. Issacs, editor ; Steven A. Schroeder and Joel A. Simon, conference organizers
Contributors: United States. Veterans Administration; San Francisco VA Medical Center (U.S.)
Publisher: Dept. of Veteran Affairs
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Smoking Cessation; Congresses; Smoking; Veterans; Tobacco use; Prevention; Government policy; Smoking cessation; United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Notes: Proceedings of a conference held Sept. 21, 2004 in San Francisco, Calif., by the VA Public Health Strategic Health Care Group, the University of California at San Francisco Center for Smoking Cessation Leadership, and the San Francisco VA Medical Center.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Preface / Lawrence Deyton; title: Introduction / Steven A. Schroeder and Joel A. Simon; title: Topic 1 : smoking cessation policy. Smoking cessation policy in the VA health care system : where have we been and where are we going? / Kim Hamlett-Berry. Commentary / C. Tracy Orleans; title: Topic 2 : best practices. Treating tobacco in a medical setting : best practices / Richard D. Hurt. Best practices in tobacco control : strategies for improving quality within the Veterans Health Administration / Scott E. Sherman and Melissa M. Farmer. Commentary / Michael Fiore; title: Topic 3 : racial and ethnic minorities. Smoking cessation in U.S. ethnic minority populations / Kolawole S. Okuyemi ... [et al.] Commentary / Helen Lettlow.; title: Topic 4 : mental health and post-traumatic stress disorder. Addressing tobacco dependence among individuals with a psychiatric disorder : a neglected epidemic of major clinical and public health concern / Douglas M. Ziedonis ... [et al.] Post-traumatic stress disorder and smoking cessation in veteran smokers / Claire F. Collie, Carolina P. Clancy, and Jean C. Beckham. Commentary / Sharon Hall; title: Topic 5 : quitlines. Telephone care for smoking cessation in the Department of Veterans Affairs / Anne M. Joseph and Lawrence C. An. Tobacco quitlines : where they've been and where they're going / Shu-Hong Zhu and Christopher M. Anderson. Commentary / Timothy McAfee; title: Topic 6 : next steps for the VA. Next steps for the VA : summary of participants' recommendations / Stephen L. Isaacs ... [et al.]; title: Biographies of conference organizers, presenters, responders, and rapporteur; title: List of participants.