Frances Stillman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3576560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frances Stillman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frances |
| FAMILY NAME | Stillman |
| SIGNATURE | STILLMAN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Regional Rural‐Urban Differences in E‐Cigarette Use and Reasons for Use in the United States
PURPOSE: To determine whether there are rural/urban differences in e-cigarette use and reasons for use that vary across the 10 Health & Human Services (HHS) regions. METHODS: Age-adjusted bivariate and multivariable analyses were conducted for n = 225,413 respondents to the 2014-2015 Tobacco Use Supplement-Current Population Survey to estimate the prevalence of e-cigarette use. Reasons for e-cigarette use were collected from n = 16,023 self-respo…
Community Engagement to Address Cancer Health Disparities: A Process Evaluation Using the Partnership Self-Assessment Tool
Community-academic partnerships are promising approaches to help address cancer health disparities in African American communities. Factors that influence decision making and participation within partnerships require further research
Validation of a new continuous geographic isolation scale: A tool for rural health disparities research
A Cross-Sectional Study of Tobacco Advertising, Promotion, and Sponsorship in Airports across Europe and the United States
Tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship (TAPS) bans are effective and are increasingly being implemented in a number of venues and countries, yet the state of TAPS in airports and their effect on airport smoking behavior is unknown. The objective of this study was to evaluate the presence of TAPS in airports across Europe and the US, and to begin to examine the relationship between TAPS and smoking behaviors in airports. We used a cross-s…
Tobacco policies and on-premise smoking in bars and clubs that cater to young African Americans following the Maryland Clean Indoor Air Act of 2007
African American young adults ages 18-25 smoke less than their Caucasian peers, yet the burden of tobacco-related illness is significantly higher in African Americans than in Caucasians across the lifespan. Little is known about how clean indoor air laws affect tobacco smoking among African American young adults. We conducted a systematic observation of bars and clubs with events targeted to African American adults 18-25 in Baltimore City at two …
Clear Skies and Grey Areas: Flight Attendants’ Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Attitudes toward Smoke-Free Policy 25 Years since Smoking was Banned on Airplanes
Our objective was to provide descriptive data on flight attendant secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure in the work environment, and to examine attitudes toward SHS exposure, personal health, and smoke-free policy in the workplace and public places. Flight attendants completed a web-based survey of self-reported SHS exposure and air quality in the work environment. We assessed the frequency and duration of SHS exposure in distinct areas of the workplac…
Establishing smoke-free hospitals in Vietnam: A pilot project
In Vietnam, a pilot 'smoke-free hospital' model was implemented in nine hospitals in 2009-2010 to supply lessons learned that would facilitate a replication of this model elsewhere. This study aimed to assess smoking patterns among health professionals and to detect levels of second-hand smoke (SHS) exposure within hospital premises before and after the 'smoke-free hospital' model implementation. A pre- and post-intervention cross-sectional study…
Factors influencing tobacco use treatment patterns among Vietnamese health care providers working in community health centers
Despite ratifying the FCTC, Viet Nam has not made progress in implementing policies and systems to ensure that smokers are receiving evidence-based treatment. This study suggests a need to change organizational norms through changes in national policies, training and local system-level changes that facilitate treatment
Out of View but in Plain Sight: The Illegal Sale of Single Cigarettes
Smoke-free or not: A pilot evaluation in selected Beijing Hospitals
As implementation strategies for smoke-free environments are improved and more resources are focused on hospitals, China is making progress toward achieving smoke-free hospitals. Using a model program could increase the prevalence of SHS policies across China. However, relying only on survey data may not provide an accurate assessment of this progress, and more extensive evaluation efforts are useful to understand how change can and does occur
Development of policy performance indicators to assess the implementation of protection from exposure to secondhand smoke in China
The PPI is useful for evaluating implementation of smoke-free policies. As tobacco control programmes are implemented, the PPI offers an indicator to track success and change strategies, without collecting data for a full SOTC index
Cancer registries in four provinces in Turkey: A case study
BACKGROUND: The burden of cancer affects all countries; while high-income countries have the capacity and resources to establish comprehensive cancer control programs, low and middle-income countries have limited resources to develop such programs. This paper examines factors associated with the development of cancer registries in four provinces in Turkey. It looks at the progress made by these registries, the challenges they faced, and the lesso…
Mobilizing for Policy: Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Impose Minimum Packaging Requirements on Small Cigars
Collaborative partnerships between community-based organizations, public health agencies, and academic institutions can lead to policy initiatives with the potential to improve public health
Workplace smoking restrictions in China: Results from a six county survey
In China, few workplaces have implemented policies to restrict smoking, and, even in workplaces that have policies, workers report exposure to SHS while at their places of employment. Many workers report a lack of compliance with smoke-free policies. China needs better implementation of SHS policies to promote compliance. Working to improve implementation of smoke-free policies would promote cessation since Chinese smokers who were compliant with…
Influences on Tobacco Use Among Urban Hispanic Young Adults in Baltimore: Findings From a Qualitative Study
Background: Among Hispanics, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death for men and the second leading cause of cancer death for women in the United States. Despite recent growth in Baltimore City's Hispanic population, few data exist on tobacco use behaviors in this group
Partnering With Education and Job and Training Programs for Sustainable Tobacco Control Among Baltimore African American Young Adults
Partnering With Education and Job and Training Programs for Sustainable Tobacco Control Among Baltimore African American Young Adults Katherine Clegg Smith, PhD , Lee Bone, PhD , Eric A. Clay, Kerry Owings, Sean Thames, and Frances Stillman What Is the Purpose of This Study • We sought to gain insight from program leaders and staff who are responsible for education and job training programs for unemployed African American young adults in Baltimor…
Partnering With Education and Job and Training Programs for Sustainable Tobacco Control Among Baltimore African American Young Adults
The emergent themes enhance our understanding of how tobacco is situated in the lives of unemployed young adults and the potential for building sustainable, community-based public health solutions
Mapping tobacco industry strategies in South East Asia for action planning and surveillance
The map shows eight clusters of industry activities within the four countries. These were arranged into four general sectors: economics, politics, public relations and deception. For project design purposes, the map indicates areas of importance and feasibility for monitoring tobacco industry activities and serves as a basis for an initial discussion about action planning. Furthermore, the development of the map used a consensus building process …
Second-hand tobacco smoke in public places in urban and rural China
The data collected in this study provide evidence that SHS exposure is frequent in public places in China. Environmental nicotine concentrations in China provide evidence for implementation and enforcement of smoke-free initiatives in public places in China and indicate the need for protecting the public from exposure to SHS
Community guide recommendations and state level tobacco control programmes: 1999–2004
State tobacco control partners are implementing evidence based interventions, but more focus is needed on the tobacco cessation and mass media campaign components of comprehensive tobacco control programmes
Buying and Selling “Loosies” in Baltimore: The Informal Exchange of Cigarettes in the Community Context
Barriers to Smoking Cessation in Inner-City African American Young Adults
The prevalence of tobacco use among urban African American persons aged 18 to 24 years not enrolled in college is alarmingly high and a challenge for smoking cessation initiatives. Recent data from inner-city neighborhoods in Baltimore, Md, indicate that more than 60% of young adults smoke cigarettes. We sought to describe community-level factors contributing to this problem. Data from focus groups and surveys indicate that the sale and acquisiti…
Building capacity for tobacco control research and policy: Table 1
The Fogarty International Center (FIC) initiative, "International Tobacco and Health Research Capacity Building Program" represents an important step in US government funding for global tobacco control. Low- and middle-income countries of the world face a rising threat to public health from the rapidly escalating epidemic of tobacco use. Many are now parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and capacity development to meet FC…
The Landscape in Global Tobacco Control Research: A Guide to Gaining a Foothold
Smoking prevalence is shifting from more- to less-developed countries. In higher-income countries, smoking surveillance data, tailored treatments, public health campaigns, and research-based policy implementation have led to a decrease in tobacco use. In low- and middle-income countries, translating research into practice and policy is integral for tobacco control. We describe the landscape of existing resources, both financial and structural, to…
Building Capacity for International Tobacco Control Research: The Global Tobacco Research Network
The Global Tobacco Research Network (GTRN) was developed to enhance global tobacco control research through information sharing and collaboration among researchers. The formation of the GTRN is timely because of the need to ratify, implement, and track the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. While the spectrum of international tobacco control research continues to expand, resources to support these efforts are still quite limited. As an issu…
Validation of a new continuous geographic isolation scale: A tool for rural health disparities research
Buying and Selling “Loosies” in Baltimore: The Informal Exchange of Cigarettes in the Community Context
Out of View but in Plain Sight: The Illegal Sale of Single Cigarettes
Barriers to Smoking Cessation in Inner-City African American Young Adults
The prevalence of tobacco use among urban African American persons aged 18 to 24 years not enrolled in college is alarmingly high and a challenge for smoking cessation initiatives. Recent data from inner-city neighborhoods in Baltimore, Md, indicate that more than 60% of young adults smoke cigarettes. We sought to describe community-level factors contributing to this problem. Data from focus groups and surveys indicate that the sale and acquisiti…
The Landscape in Global Tobacco Control Research: A Guide to Gaining a Foothold
Smoking prevalence is shifting from more- to less-developed countries. In higher-income countries, smoking surveillance data, tailored treatments, public health campaigns, and research-based policy implementation have led to a decrease in tobacco use. In low- and middle-income countries, translating research into practice and policy is integral for tobacco control. We describe the landscape of existing resources, both financial and structural, to…
Building Capacity for International Tobacco Control Research: The Global Tobacco Research Network
The Global Tobacco Research Network (GTRN) was developed to enhance global tobacco control research through information sharing and collaboration among researchers. The formation of the GTRN is timely because of the need to ratify, implement, and track the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. While the spectrum of international tobacco control research continues to expand, resources to support these efforts are still quite limited. As an issu…
Mobilizing for Policy: Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Impose Minimum Packaging Requirements on Small Cigars
Collaborative partnerships between community-based organizations, public health agencies, and academic institutions can lead to policy initiatives with the potential to improve public health
Cigarette sales to African-American and white minors in low-income areas of Baltimore
OBJECTIVES: This study documented illegal sales of cigarettes to minors in low-income African-American and White urban areas in East Baltimore. METHODS: Six youths, aged 14 through 16 years, were sent to a random sample of 83 corner stores to attempt to purchase cigarettes. The youths provided the investigators with data on merchant, store, and purchase characteristics. RESULTS: The youths successfully purchased cigarettes in 85.5% of the stores;…
Partnering With Education and Job and Training Programs for Sustainable Tobacco Control Among Baltimore African American Young Adults
The emergent themes enhance our understanding of how tobacco is situated in the lives of unemployed young adults and the potential for building sustainable, community-based public health solutions
The status of restrictive smoking policies: A survey of medical schools in the United States and Canada
All schools of medicine in the United States (N = 128) and Canada (N = 16) were surveyed by telephone to determine if they had instituted policies to restrict smoking. Some policy restricting smoking was reported by 80.56 percent of US schools (N = 103) and by 93.8 percent of Canadian schools (N = 15). However, only 52.3 percent of US (N = 67) and 56.3 percent of Canadian medical schools (N = 9) indicated they had formal written policy statements…
The effects of a hospital smoking ban on employee smoking behaviour and participation in different types of smoking cessation programmes
Correspondence to: HR Waranch, 28 Fencepost Court, Pikesville, MD 21208, USA Abstract Objective -To evaluate the effects of a smoking ban at Johns Hopkins Hospital on employee smoking behaviour and par ticipation in a variety of stop-smoking programmes. Design A prospective descriptive study of 262 employees who participated in a variety of stop-smoking programmes. The employees were contacted one year after implementation of a smoking ban to det…
Patient compliance with a hospital no-smoking policy
Correspondence to : Frances A Stillman, Ed.D, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Department of Medicine, 550 Broadway/Room 408A, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA Abstract Objective To examine compliance with a hospital-wide no-smoking policy and tobacco abstinence rates in a selected group of smoking hospital inpatients. Subjects 504 patients were interviewed during hospital admission in 1990-1992. Setting A 1000 bed urban teaching hos pital…
Tobacco Control and Smoking Cessation Efforts in an Inner-City African American Community
This paper describes the conceptual framework that guided the development and implementation of a large-scale, community-based health initiative to lower the prevalence of smoking in an urban African American community. This project developed culturally-sensitive approaches to reducing smoking in the community and to promoting tobacco control efforts developed and implemented by community members. A randomized clinical-trial methodology was used …
Cigarette sales to African-American and white minors in low-income areas of Baltimore
OBJECTIVES: This study documented illegal sales of cigarettes to minors in low-income African-American and White urban areas in East Baltimore. METHODS: Six youths, aged 14 through 16 years, were sent to a random sample of 83 corner stores to attempt to purchase cigarettes. The youths provided the investigators with data on merchant, store, and purchase characteristics. RESULTS: The youths successfully purchased cigarettes in 85.5% of the stores;…
Can media advocacy influence newspaper coverage of tobacco: Measuring the effectiveness of the American stop smoking intervention study's (Assist) media advocacy strategies
The presence of an ASSIST main effect should be interpreted with caution because of the quasi-experimental design and the lack of information on article rates before the ASSIST intervention. Nonetheless, these preliminary findings suggest some possible effects of the media advocacy activities of ASSIST when controlling for differences in states' initial tobacco control conditions
Achieving the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control’s potential by investing in national capacity
May 2003 marked a critical achievement in efforts to stem the global tobacco epidemic, as the member states of the World Health Organization unanimously endorsed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). However, the adoption of the FCTC signifies only the end of the beginning of effective global action to control tobacco. Over the next several years the utility of the FCTC process and the treaty itself will be tested as individual coun…
The Landscape in Global Tobacco Control Research: A Guide to Gaining a Foothold
Smoking prevalence is shifting from more- to less-developed countries. In higher-income countries, smoking surveillance data, tailored treatments, public health campaigns, and research-based policy implementation have led to a decrease in tobacco use. In low- and middle-income countries, translating research into practice and policy is integral for tobacco control. We describe the landscape of existing resources, both financial and structural, to…
Building Capacity for International Tobacco Control Research: The Global Tobacco Research Network
The Global Tobacco Research Network (GTRN) was developed to enhance global tobacco control research through information sharing and collaboration among researchers. The formation of the GTRN is timely because of the need to ratify, implement, and track the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. While the spectrum of international tobacco control research continues to expand, resources to support these efforts are still quite limited. As an issu…
Building capacity for tobacco control research and policy: Table 1
The Fogarty International Center (FIC) initiative, "International Tobacco and Health Research Capacity Building Program" represents an important step in US government funding for global tobacco control. Low- and middle-income countries of the world face a rising threat to public health from the rapidly escalating epidemic of tobacco use. Many are now parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and capacity development to meet FC…
Second-hand tobacco smoke in public places in urban and rural China
The data collected in this study provide evidence that SHS exposure is frequent in public places in China. Environmental nicotine concentrations in China provide evidence for implementation and enforcement of smoke-free initiatives in public places in China and indicate the need for protecting the public from exposure to SHS
Community guide recommendations and state level tobacco control programmes: 1999–2004
State tobacco control partners are implementing evidence based interventions, but more focus is needed on the tobacco cessation and mass media campaign components of comprehensive tobacco control programmes
Buying and Selling “Loosies” in Baltimore: The Informal Exchange of Cigarettes in the Community Context
Barriers to Smoking Cessation in Inner-City African American Young Adults
The prevalence of tobacco use among urban African American persons aged 18 to 24 years not enrolled in college is alarmingly high and a challenge for smoking cessation initiatives. Recent data from inner-city neighborhoods in Baltimore, Md, indicate that more than 60% of young adults smoke cigarettes. We sought to describe community-level factors contributing to this problem. Data from focus groups and surveys indicate that the sale and acquisiti…
Mapping tobacco industry strategies in South East Asia for action planning and surveillance
The map shows eight clusters of industry activities within the four countries. These were arranged into four general sectors: economics, politics, public relations and deception. For project design purposes, the map indicates areas of importance and feasibility for monitoring tobacco industry activities and serves as a basis for an initial discussion about action planning. Furthermore, the development of the map used a consensus building process …
Partnering With Education and Job and Training Programs for Sustainable Tobacco Control Among Baltimore African American Young Adults
Partnering With Education and Job and Training Programs for Sustainable Tobacco Control Among Baltimore African American Young Adults Katherine Clegg Smith, PhD , Lee Bone, PhD , Eric A. Clay, Kerry Owings, Sean Thames, and Frances Stillman What Is the Purpose of This Study • We sought to gain insight from program leaders and staff who are responsible for education and job training programs for unemployed African American young adults in Baltimor…
Partnering With Education and Job and Training Programs for Sustainable Tobacco Control Among Baltimore African American Young Adults
The emergent themes enhance our understanding of how tobacco is situated in the lives of unemployed young adults and the potential for building sustainable, community-based public health solutions
Workplace smoking restrictions in China: Results from a six county survey
In China, few workplaces have implemented policies to restrict smoking, and, even in workplaces that have policies, workers report exposure to SHS while at their places of employment. Many workers report a lack of compliance with smoke-free policies. China needs better implementation of SHS policies to promote compliance. Working to improve implementation of smoke-free policies would promote cessation since Chinese smokers who were compliant with…
Influences on Tobacco Use Among Urban Hispanic Young Adults in Baltimore: Findings From a Qualitative Study
Background: Among Hispanics, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death for men and the second leading cause of cancer death for women in the United States. Despite recent growth in Baltimore City's Hispanic population, few data exist on tobacco use behaviors in this group
Cancer registries in four provinces in Turkey: A case study
BACKGROUND: The burden of cancer affects all countries; while high-income countries have the capacity and resources to establish comprehensive cancer control programs, low and middle-income countries have limited resources to develop such programs. This paper examines factors associated with the development of cancer registries in four provinces in Turkey. It looks at the progress made by these registries, the challenges they faced, and the lesso…
Mobilizing for Policy: Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Impose Minimum Packaging Requirements on Small Cigars
Collaborative partnerships between community-based organizations, public health agencies, and academic institutions can lead to policy initiatives with the potential to improve public health
Smoke-free or not: A pilot evaluation in selected Beijing Hospitals
As implementation strategies for smoke-free environments are improved and more resources are focused on hospitals, China is making progress toward achieving smoke-free hospitals. Using a model program could increase the prevalence of SHS policies across China. However, relying only on survey data may not provide an accurate assessment of this progress, and more extensive evaluation efforts are useful to understand how change can and does occur
Development of policy performance indicators to assess the implementation of protection from exposure to secondhand smoke in China
The PPI is useful for evaluating implementation of smoke-free policies. As tobacco control programmes are implemented, the PPI offers an indicator to track success and change strategies, without collecting data for a full SOTC index
Establishing smoke-free hospitals in Vietnam: A pilot project
In Vietnam, a pilot 'smoke-free hospital' model was implemented in nine hospitals in 2009-2010 to supply lessons learned that would facilitate a replication of this model elsewhere. This study aimed to assess smoking patterns among health professionals and to detect levels of second-hand smoke (SHS) exposure within hospital premises before and after the 'smoke-free hospital' model implementation. A pre- and post-intervention cross-sectional study…
Factors influencing tobacco use treatment patterns among Vietnamese health care providers working in community health centers
Despite ratifying the FCTC, Viet Nam has not made progress in implementing policies and systems to ensure that smokers are receiving evidence-based treatment. This study suggests a need to change organizational norms through changes in national policies, training and local system-level changes that facilitate treatment
Medicine (32 works) · Environmental health (24 works) · Smoking Behavior and Cessation (24 works) · Public health (21 works) · Political science (20 works) · Business (18 works) · Tobacco control (15 works) · Nursing (14 works) · Geography (11 works) · Psychology (9 works)