Technical Guides

A background paper based on the literature and international experience in the development of sustainable funding models for tobacco control.

A key tobacco control measure, tobacco vendor licensing can limit tobacco retailer density around schools, parks, and hospitals

This factsheet provides information on what is presently known about smoking and COVID-19 during various inflection points.

Electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products (HTPs) are very different, but both are considered “novel products”. Understanding these products and the differences between them is critical to developing tobacco control policy and countering tobacco industry messaging.

This guide includes some best practices to keep in mind when running a road safety social campaign together with a mass media campaign.

Media engagement is a key component of comprehensive strategies to save lives on the world’s roads. This facilitator's guide hopes to support the relationship with the media on the road safety topic.

The Epidemiology Guide provides an overview of key overdose and substance-use indicators; key data investigation questions; suggestions on how to secure, analyze, and stratify data; possible data sources; examples; and references.

Vital Strategies, together with partners from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative, has developed a series of technical guides, drawing on international standards, tools and concepts and provide users with practical and operational advice and strategic planning support for targeted CRVS system strengthening efforts.