Powerpoint Engaging Tribes to Increase Tobacco Taxes
Engaging Tribes to Increase Tobacco Taxes Presentation
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.
Leading barriers to working on Cessation and Health Systems included lack of training and not knowing where to start, both problems Cessation TA can solve.
ATS was developed by Tribal Support Center Staff, Tribal Leaders and Organizations, Tribal Community Members, and CDC Staff.
At least 50% of deaths in the US from the ten leading causes of death are strongly linked to lifestyle-related behaviors, such as tobacco use, poor dietary habits and inactivity, alcohol misuse, illicit drug use and risky sexual practices.
This toolkit, developed by the Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan, is part of an overall project that is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through their Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) nationwide initiative.
Medicaid Managed Care and Comprehensive Cessation Coverage: A Recommended Approach for State Tobacco Control Programs?
Healthy People 2010 is a comprehensive set of disease prevention and health objectives for the U.S. population to achieve over the first 10 years of the twenty-first century. The second overarching goal of Healthy People 2010 is to eliminate health disparities in several focus areas—primarily commercial tobacco use.