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Glossary
- AFRO: WHO African Regional Office
- CDC: U. S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
- CPHA: Canadian Public Health Association
- EMRO: WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office
- EURO: WHO European Regional Office
- FCTC: WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco
Control
- FWEIGHT: statistical sample design element—final weight factor—applied to each record in the GYTS analysis file
- GHPSS: Global Health Professions Student Survey
- GSPS: Global School Personnel Survey
- GTSS: Global Tobacco Surveillance System
- GYTS: Global Youth Tobacco Survey
- PAHO: Pan American Health Organization
- PSU: Statistical sample design element—primary sampling unit—used in the analysis of the GYTS data
- RC: Research coordinator
- SEARO: WHO South East Asia Regional Office
- STRATA: statistical sample design element
used in the analysis of GYTS data
- WPRO: WHO Western Pacific Regional Office
- WHO: World Health Organization
- HQ: headquarters, namely, WHO/Tobacco Free
Initiative headquarters in Geneva
- RO: regional office, namely, the six
regional offices of the WHO/Tobacco Free Initiative
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Page last modified 03/12/2007
