Title |
Translation of tobacco policy into practice in disadvantaged and marginalized subpopulations: a study of challenges and opportunities in remote Australian Indigenous communities
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Published in |
Health Research Policy and Systems, July 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1478-4505-10-23 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Jan A Robertson, Katherine M Conigrave, Rowena Ivers, Kim Usher, Alan R Clough |
Abstract |
In Australia generally, smoking prevalence more than halved after 1980 and recently commenced to decline among Australia's disadvantaged Indigenous peoples. However, in some remote Indigenous Australian communities in the Northern Territory (NT), extremely high rates of up to 83% have not changed over the past 25 years. The World Health Organisation has called for public health and political leadership to address a global tobacco epidemic. For Indigenous Australians, unprecedented policies aim to overcome disadvantage and close the 'health gap' with reducing tobacco use the top priority. This study identifies challenges and opportunities to implementing these important new tobacco initiatives in remote Indigenous communities. |
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United Kingdom | 1 | 20% |
Canada | 1 | 20% |
Unknown | 3 | 60% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 5 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Australia | 1 | 1% |
Unknown | 78 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
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Student > Master | 16 | 20% |
Researcher | 11 | 14% |
Student > Bachelor | 10 | 13% |
Other | 6 | 8% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 8% |
Other | 12 | 15% |
Unknown | 18 | 23% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 15 | 19% |
Social Sciences | 12 | 15% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 10 | 13% |
Psychology | 7 | 9% |
Business, Management and Accounting | 4 | 5% |
Other | 11 | 14% |
Unknown | 20 | 25% |