.png "Philippines Smoking prevalence, males (% of adults)")
| Data: | Smoking prevalence, males (% of adults) | ||||||||
| Year: | 1960 - 2013 | ||||||||
| Country: | Philippines | ||||||||
| Source: | World Bank (the information in this section is direct quotation from World Bank development data) | ||||||||
| Series Code: | SH.PRV.SMOK.MA | ||||||||
| Topic: | Health: Risk factors | ||||||||
| Short Definition: | 0 | ||||||||
| Long Definition: | Prevalence of smoking, male is the percentage of men ages 15 and over who smoke any form of tobacco, including cigarettes, cigars, and pipes, and excluding smokeless tobacco. Data include daily and non-daily smoking. | ||||||||
| Unit of Measurement: | 0 | ||||||||
| Periodicity: | Annual | ||||||||
| Base Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Reference Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Aggregation method: | Weighted average | ||||||||
| Limitations and exceptions: | 0 | ||||||||
| Notes from original source: | 0 | ||||||||
| General Comments: | 0 | ||||||||
| Original Source: | WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic. | ||||||||
| Statistical concept and methodology: | The limited
availability of data on health status is a major constraint in assessing the
health situation in developing countries. Surveillance data are lacking for
many major public health concerns. Estimates of prevalence and incidence are
available for some diseases but are often unreliable and incomplete. National
health authorities differ widely in capacity and willingness to collect or
report information. To compensate for this and improve reliability and
international comparability, the World Health Organization (WHO) prepares
estimates in accordance with epidemiological models and statistical
standards. Smoking is the most common form of tobacco use and the prevalence of smoking is therefore a good measure of the tobacco epidemic. (Corrao MA, Guindon GE, Sharma N, Shokoohi DF (eds). Tobacco Control Country Profiles, 2000, American Cancer Society, Atlanta.) Tobacco use causes heart and other vascular diseases and cancers of the lung and other organs. Given the long delay between starting to smoke and the onset of disease, the health impact of smoking will increase rapidly only in the next few decades. The data presented are age-standardized rates for adults ages 15 and older from the WHO. |
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| Development relevance: | 0 | ||||||||
