Literature concepts and critical analysis
¶ … Guest, with its existential feel, is a Camus classic. The short story's setting is stark, as the author's words evoke the Algerian desert in the midst of a snowstorm. Sweeping landscapes of desert winter and stark,…
Established in 1990, the California Tobacco Control
Evaluation Questions and Data Collection
The California Tobacco Control Program (CTCP) was established in 1990 and was the first tobacco control program to incorporate a change of social norms in its core strategy. Due to its ambitious stated mission "to improve the health of all Californians by reducing illness and premature death attributable to the use of tobacco products," the program adopted equally ambitious long-term goals to empower statewide and local health agencies to promote health and quality of life by providing leadership and research in advocating social norms creating an environment that is tobacco free, stop illegal tobacco sales to youth, fight the tobacco industry's aggressive marketing, and assist people to permanently quit smoking. Evaluation of the CTCP involves "process evaluation" questions that can be far-ranging and can involve goal achievement, cost effectiveness and possible alternatives, among other evaluations. Focusing on process evaluation questions about whether the CTCP is achieving its goals, the rationale of these evaluation questions goes to the heart of the CTCP program and these questions can be answered through data collection among targeted populations of citizens and health care professionals, among others. As the current research shows, evaluation of the CTCP is ongoing and has already yielded valuable process evaluation data and conclusions.