Tim McAfee

Dados Biográficos

ID7700342
NOMETim McAfee
PRENOMESTim
SOBRENOMEMcAfee
ASSINATURAMCAFEE T
AFILIAÇÕESNational Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1998
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2015
ÍNDICE H0

  • Warning about the harms of tobacco use in 22 countries

    John J Chiosi, Linda J Andes et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2015

    Antismoking media messages appear effective for warning the public about the harms from tobacco use in all 22 countries, while warning labels are effective in the majority of these countries. Our findings suggest opportunities to motivate smoking cessation globally

  • Increasing the dose of television advertising in a national antismoking media campaign

    Open AccessTim McAfee, Kevin Davis et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2015

    The US 2013 Tips antismoking media campaign compared standard and higher doses by randomisation of local media markets. Results demonstrate the effectiveness of a higher dose for engaging non-smokers and further increasing quit attempts among smokers, especially African-Americans

  • St-Century Hazards of Smoking and Benefits of Cessation in the United States

    Prabhat Jha, Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige et al.ARTICLENew England Journal of Medicine2013

    BACKGROUND: Extrapolation from studies in the 1980s suggests that smoking causes 25% of deaths among women and men 35 to 69 years of age in the United States. Nationally representative measurements of the current risks of smoking and the benefits of cessation at various ages are unavailable. METHODS: We obtained smoking and smoking-cessation histories from 113,752 women and 88,496 men 25 years of age or older who were interviewed between 1997 and…

  • Cost effectiveness of the Oregon quitline “free patch initiative”

    Jeffrey L Fellows, TERRY BUSH et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2007

    Compared to the pre-initiative programme, the free patch initiative was a highly cost effective strategy for increasing quitting in the population

  • The uninsured and Medicaid Oregon tobacco user experience in a real world, phone based cessation programme

    A Y El-Bastawissi, Ay El-Bastawissi et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2003

    The quit rates are similar to those reported in efficacy trials. The observed variation in quitting tobacco for respondents by number of calls completed and by insurance merits further investigation concentrating on increasing compliance with the call schedule, particularly for the uninsured

  • Managed care and the state tobacco settlements

    Tim McAfee, T A McAfeeARTICLETobacco Control2000

    Legislatures around the country are deciding how to spend the impending avalanche of tobacco settlement money. This avalanche has the capacity to be a boon for tobacco control or a boondoggle. Hundreds of billions of dollars will flow into states for 25 years. Nobody knows whether this money will go for road repair, general fund bailouts, education, medical services, or tobacco control. If settlement money is not allocated to tobacco control now,…

  • Waking the health plan giant

    Tim McAfeeARTICLETobacco Control1998

    Implementing a comprehensive approach to decreasing tobacco use in a large health plan requires hard work and commitment on the part of many individuals. We found that major organisational change can be accomplished and sustained. Keys to our success included our decision to remove access barriers to our cessation programmes (including cost); obtaining top leadership buy-in; identifying accountable individuals who owned responsibility for change;…