Youth Tobacco
Rapid Assessment and Response Guide

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1: How to use the YT-RAR guide
1. Introduction
2. The YT-RAR and TG-RAR
• Chapter 2: Introduction to the use of RAR in addressing tobacco use amoung young people
1. Introduction
2. Tobacco and young people
3. Different kinds of tobacco products
4. Influences on tobacco use
5. Tobacco and health
6. Adverse social consequences
• Chapter 3: YT-RAR: Principles of Rapid Assessment and Response
1. The use of Rapid Assessment and Response in tobacco control
2. Features of YT-RAR
• Chapter 4: Organising the YT-RAR
1. Flexibility, organisation and planning
2. Identify the issue
3. Establish core RAR team
4. Conduct initial community consultation
5. Identify parameters of YT-RAR
6. Establish community consultation process
7. Build and train the YT-RAR team
8. Conduct advocacy
9. Develop the RAR plan
10. Undertake fieldwork
11. Translate findings into action
12. Implement interventions
13. Monitor, evaluate and sustain the difference
• Chapter 5: YT-RAR: Response and Intervention Development
1. Introduction
2. Principles of intervention development
3. Types of intervention
• Chapter 6: Social Mobilisation, Advocacy and Community Participation in YT-RAR
1. The need for social mobilization, advocacy, and community participation
2. Advocacy
3. Community participation
• Chapter 7: Rapid Assessment and Response Training for YT-RAR
1. Team training
2. Developing a training programme
• Chapter 8: YT-RAR: Assessment Modules
1. Initial consultation on tobacco and young people
2. Profiling the study area
3. Assessing the context of youth tobacco use
4. Assessing populations at risk and settings of tobacco use
5. Health problems caused by tobacco
6. Tobacco use behaviours
7. Assessing the social consequences of tobacco
8. Assessing current tobacco control interventions
• Chapter 9: YT-RAR: Research Methods
1. Research skills
2. Using existing information
3. Common sampling techniques for YT-RAR
4. Interviewing people about tobacco
5. Focus groups on tobacco
6. Observing tobacco marketing and use
7. Surveys of tobacco use
8. Mapping where tobacco is marketed and used
9. Visual methods
10. Estimating the size of populations
11. Additional research methods
• Chapter 10: Developing the YT-RAR Action Plan
1. What is the Action plan?
2. Developing the action plan
• Chapter 11: YT-RAR: Evaluation
1. Evaluation of tobacco interventions
2. Evaluation terminology
3. Implementation evaluation
4. Impact evaluation
• Annex 1: Links
• World Health Organization
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• World Bank
• Global Networks for Tobacco Prevention and Control
• Research and Programmatic Resource
• Online Internal Tobacco Industry Documents Search Tools
• Internationally-focused organisations with important documentation
• Tobacco Control Advocacy Links
• Youth anti-tobacco campaigns specialising in community organising and/or counter-marketing