For many years, patients and healthcare providers have experienced the adverse effects of commercial tobacco use. Despite the health consequences of smoking, physicians and other healthcare clinicians often fail to assess and treat commercial tobacco use consistently and effectively.
Tribal community and clinical linkages are connections between tribal patients, families, and caregivers, tribal health care providers, health care systems, public health organizations, and other community resources.
This fieldbook is a tool for the National Indian Health Service Tobacco Initiative Strategic Tobacco Plan. The ultimate goal is to work toward healthy American Indian and Alaska Native communities. We can only accomplish this multidisciplinary vision by working in partnership with Tribal and Urban Indian communities.
American Indian tribal nations are sovereign entities that predate federal and state governments. As sovereign nations, tribal governments have the right to be self-determined by establishing policies that impact the future of the tribal nation.
American Indian Adult Tobacco Survey: Getting Started: Obtaining Permissions and Groundwork Presentation
Find HHS Grant Opportunities for Tribes Using Grants Forecast, CFDA and Grants.gov
Engaging Tribes to Increase Tobacco Taxes Presentation
Even brief exposure to tobacco smoke causes immediate harm to the body, damaging cells and blood vessels, and inflaming tissue in ways that can lead to serious illness and death.
AI/AN as a whole, have the highest prevalence rates of any ethnic/racial group.
A coalition is a formal arrangement for cooperation and collaboration between groups or sectors of the community, in which each group retains its identity but all agree to work together toward a common goal of building a safe, healthy community.