Eliminating Tobacco Disparities Among Native Hawaiian Pacific Islanders Through Policy Change

Autor: Vanessa Tui’one, Roger Sur, Sora Park Tanjasiri, Lola Sablan-Santos, Cevadne Lee, Dorothy Schmidt-Vaivao, Melanie Sabado, Jonathan Tana Lepule, Victor Kaiwi Pang, Paula H. Palmer
Rok vydání: 2013
Předmět:
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
Tobacco
Smokeless
Nursing (miscellaneous)
common
Community organization
Population
Health Promotion
Article
California
Hawaii
Pacific Islander
minority health
Political science
Native Hawaiians
Environmental health
Humans
Social Change
education
Socioeconomics
Health Education
Health policy
health disparities
public health laws/policies
tobacco prevention and control
advocacy
education.field_of_study
community organization
Health Policy
Smoking
common.demographic_type
Tobacco control
Community Participation
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health
Health Status Disparities
Community-Institutional Relations
Health equity
Oceanic Ancestry Group
Health promotion
Public Health and Health Services
Pacific islanders
Native Hawaiian
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Zdroj: Palmer, Paula Healani; Lee, Cevadne; Sablan-Santos, Lola; Lepule, Jonathan Tana; Pang, Victor Kaiwi; Tui'one, Vanessa; et al.(2013). Eliminating tobacco disparities among native Hawaiian Pacific Islanders through policy change: the role of community-based organizations.. Health promotion practice, 14(5 Suppl), 36S-39S. doi: 10.1177/1524839913486150. UC Irvine: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0mp5m4md
ISSN: 1552-6372
1524-8399
Popis: Although cigarette smoking in the general U.S. population has decreased considerably over the past several decades, prevalence rates among Native Hawaiian Pacific Islanders (NHPI) have remained elevated by comparison with other groups. The aggregation of NHPI smoking data with that of Asians has drawn attention away from the serious smoking problems that NHPIs experience, thus, limiting funding, programs, and policies to reduce tobacco-related health disparities in their communities. In California, community-based organizations (CBOs) have played a major role in supporting the state’s comprehensive tobacco control program, which is arguably one of the most successful in the nation. In this commentary, we describe the tobacco control activities of five NHPI-serving CBOs in Southern California and how they have provided anti-tobacco education for thousands of Native Hawaiians, Chamorros, Marshallese, Samoans, Tongans, and other Pacific Islander subgroups, and used advocacy and coalition building to promote smoke-free environment policies in their communities. The concerted efforts of the CBOs and their community members have made vital contributions to the reduction of tobacco-related disparities for NHPI populations in California.
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