摘要：Background: A report of the activities of countries worldwide for six main policies to controltobacco use is published once every 2 years by the World Health Organization (WHO). Ourobjective was to perform a quantitative analysis for it in countries and regions to make a simpleview of its programs. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study by filling out a validated checklist from the 2015 WHOReport (MPOWER). All ten MPOWER measures got scores and were entered independently bytwo individuals and a third party compared the values. Results: Fifteen countries, which acquired the highest scores (85% of total 37), included Panamaand Turkey with 35, Brazil and Uruguay with 34, Ireland, United Kingdom, Iran, Brunei, Argentina, and Costa Rica with 33, and Australia, Nepal, Thailand, Canada, and Mauritius with 32 points. Conclusions: Comparison of scores of different countries in this respect can be beneficialsince it creates a challenge for the health policymakers to find weakness of the tobacco controlprograms to work on it.
