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Project Name: Monitoring and evaluating Aboriginal
tobabbo control
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CRCAH Project No:
#CD216
Administering Organisation:
Menzies School
of Health Research
Program Manager:
Arwen
Pratt Chronic Conditions
Project Leader:
Dr David Thomas
Senior Research Fellow
Menzies School of Health Research
david.thomas@menzies.edu.au
Funding Sources:
- CRC for Aboriginal Health
- The National Health and Medical Research Council
Partners Involved:
- Menzies School of Health Research
- Aboriginal people and organisations in remote communities
- Stores and takeaway outlets in these communities
- Wholesalers to these stores and takeaway outlets
- Northern Territory Department of Health & Community
Services (NTDHCS)
- Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance NT (AMSANT)
- Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
(OATSIH)
- Arnhemland Progress Association (ALPA)
- Outback Stores
- National Heart Foundation
- University of Melbourne
- University of Wollongong
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Project Summary:
Tobacco smoking caused an estimated 20% of national Indigenous
deaths in 2003. Smoking is twice as common in Indigenous as
non-Indigenous Australians.
Our project will increase knowledge about Indigenous smoking by
describing:
- Indigenous perceptions of why people smoke or quit
- The social determinants of Indigenous smoking
- National and local trends in Indigenous smoking
The project will increase knowledge about tobacco control
activities for Indigenous people by:
- Evaluating tobacco control projects
- Monitoring tobacco control activities in remote Indigenous
communities.
Summary of Projected Outcomes:
This research will add important new evidence about Indigenous
perceptions of smoking and quitting in remote communities, the
social determinants of smoking and quitting, local and national
trends in Indigenous smoking, and evaluations of tobacco control
interventions.
It will also establish the feasibility of monitoring tobacco
consumption trends in remote Indigenous towns, using store and
takeaway sales of tobacco. Such monitoring (and local
feedback) is analogous to the established monitoring of infectious
disease notifications. It would enable timely policy
responses to local changes in tobacco consumption, and will
facilitate the evaluation of the local impact of new tobacco
control activities and policies.
The project started in February 2007 and is due to finish in
2009.
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