MAP-It Plan Pros And Cons

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2010) Tobacco control state highlights, 2010. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Office on Smoking and Health. Retrieved for http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/state_hihlights/2010/pdfs/highlights2010.pdf

Tobacco use; despite efforts to curb it, have remained unsatisfactory high. The ACA aims to improve this by making smoking cessation programs affordable or free in health care policies; by funding local communities sponsoring outreach programs aimed at at-risk populations, and media campaigns graphically illustrating the dangers tobacco use [3].

The community that I will be describing is the city of Long Beach. In this city there are many people of age and ethnicity. This city is very diverse in having many people of different cultures and backgrounds. Downtown Long Beach is where people go to eat, have fun and hang out near the Pike. At the Pike is where you’ll find a lot of young people going to the movies or shopping. In this city it is filled with young adults and they are the majority of the community. A lot of the young adults have jobs and there are some that are going to school. Younger adults are more prone to trying new things which sometimes can lead into a health issue. In this city I will be discussing a main health problem that might be relatable to other cities. The health problem that will be discussed is the use of tobacco products in young adults. Some products are cigarettes, e-cigarettes, vapes, chewing tobacco, and hookah. These products are used daily by young adults in this community.

Communities are places where people come together, interact with one another and their environment and share common characteristics, attitudes, interests, and goals. This paper will talk about the smoking community of Tulsa, Oklahoma and its health risks. The paper will then compare and contrast the major health risks of Tulsa to other cities and the state of Oklahoma, and address why this risk is present. Next, the paper will discuss the sources used, how the data was located, and the reliability of the information. Finally, relevant charts and tables will be included to help explain and substantiate the data collected.

In 2005, Needham, Massachusetts, has passed a regulation that banned the tobacco sale to anyone under 21. This regulation has achieved great success. The number of smoking students in high school has decreased by 47%. Smoking rate has decreased rapidly after 30 days and the 60% of frequent smoking

The leading cause of death in the county is heart disease followed by cancer, and both of these can be linked to smoking or second-hand smoke exposure. Methods to move toward HP2020’s goal will involve encouraging and assisting smokers to quit. The Community Guide is a free resource to help guide communities to choose programs and policies for cessation. These programs are evidenced based, research-tested and include suggestions such as increasing the unit based price on tobacco products and how this would help to decrease use, increase the number of those who quit, decrease the number of those who try cigarettes the first time and decrease the tobacco related morbidity and mortality. The research suggest the improved health effects are proportional to the size of the price increase, also noted to be effective in prevention is mass reach communication or advertising regarding the dangers of smoking and also techniques for quitting (The Community guide, n.d.). Counseling is noted to be effective alone and with the use of medications and is available through programs like the toll-free quitline in South Carolina. Healthcare professional are urged to screen patients for use of tobacco and provide cessation information to all patients and also treatment strategies such as

In 2015, 9 of every 100 high school students (9.3%) reported in 2015 that they smoked cigarettes in the past 30 days this a decrease from 15.8% in 2011, this aggregate for entire US( CDC). In the Lower Bucks County area 1 in 5 (19.1%) adults currently smokes. This percentage is slightly lower than the smoking rate statewide (22.4%). The data supports the need to reduce smoking among all population, and starting with teens is a logical step.

The Courier Journal analyzed how tobacco impacted the life of six Kentuckians: a farmer, a tobacco retailer, a cigarette factory worker, a smoker, a small business owner, and a cancer patient. The farmer argued that tobacco kept their family farm in business and that tobacco was no more harmful than coffee. The tobacco retailer talked about how his sales would fall if the price of a pack of cigarette was raised. According to the cigarette factory worker, she was intrigued by how the government would choose to spend the money that they would make from the taxes. The smoker argued that he had begun smoking when he was 9 years old and that teens would continue to smoke no matter what. The small business owner was concerned that her business would go under if farmers no longer had the money to spend at her store. And according to the cancer patient, she had been charged over $235,000 in medical bills. (Hopkins

Program 1: one successful health project related to HP 2020 is the Franklin Cardiovascular Health Program (FCHP) in the community of Farmington, Maine. The program is a sustainable method to change the behavior and care for the cardiovascular problem; it is implemented to assess the local community. Their target population is the low-income residents of Franklin County in rural Maine; they collected respondents of about 22,444 during 1970 and used this data as a baseline. The intervention is a community-wide project aim to focus on health problems like cholesterol, high-blood, smoking, physical activity, and diet behavior.

It depends a lot on community leaders as to how much priority they give towards tobacco cessation programs for youths. Awareness of the issue in community is another major factor in success of a program. In some communities and cultures there is lack of public awareness of ill effects of tobacco smoking. Program has to be culturally relevant. The infrastructure has to be great for adolescent smoking interventions. Legislature is weak in controlling tobacco sales. Smoking taxes can be further increased to discourage smoking among youths. There is a lack of local capacity to implement the program in all schools. There is lack of cost data. Staff time in schools need to be considered. Adolescent’s family life and social structure needs to be considered. The reduced budgets of many state tobacco control programs make it difficult to maintain staff and infrastructure (LaPelle, Zapka, & Ockene, 2006). The planning begins by identifying who will use the program: who will adopt it, who will implement it, and who will be responsible for sustaining the program over time. A reassessment of the planning group is necessary to ensure representation of potential program adopters and implementers (Bartholomew et al., 2009. p.506). We’re not able to asses or collect data from the program participants.so the efficacy of the program was

Jim Anthony raises the question where are the affected cases more likely to be found with respect to characteristics, conditions, and processes of person, place and time? In regard to location, these aspects will be covered predominantly at the state level, given the pertinent tobacco tax policy discussions. However, we will also explore what is occurring at the local and regional level.

On the initial meeting baseline data will be obtained from the participants with the administration of the Risk Assessment Tool and the Youth Tobacco Survey. The program will be implemented for a year. First two months of the needs assessment as well as the educational part will meet once a week for a few hours. The second half of the program will include meetings with counselors and phycologists individually and in groups. The group meeting will be one day a week and individual sessions will be once a week or more based on the individual’s needs with scheduled appointments.

An estimated 36.5 million or 15.1 % of adults aged 18 years old and older currently smoke cigarettes and more than 16,000,000 have smoking or live with diseases that are related to smoking. According to US department of health and human services, over the past five decades, there is a significant decline in cigarette smoking in the U.S. The progress has slowed in recent years and the prevalence of use of other tobacco products such as vapes, e-cigars and smokeless tobacco

Potential collaborators in our campaign include on-campus health clinics, El Paso public health clinics, the Texas DSHS, hospitals and medical treatment facilities, and school and local government policy makers. The various health clinic and medical personnel will be a vital part of this campaign as they will be the professionals responsible for the administration, testing, reporting and counseling services necessary to accomplish our mission. Education and local government policy-makers will also be necessary components to ensuring full execution and funding of our campaign.

According the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2015), cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States, accounting for more than 480,000 deaths every year, or 1 of every five deaths. In 2015, about 15 of every 100 U.S. adults age 18 years or older currently smoke cigarettes. However, this is a decline from nearly 21 of every 100 adults back in 2005. One reason for the decline is due to smoking cessation programs developed within our communities. These programs are helping smokers to quit their habit, and improve their health and lifestyle. Let us look at what it takes to make a smoke cessation successful within ones’ community.