Minority Ethnic Communities

ASH Scotland's Tobacco & Inequalities project has targeted some of its work around the theme of black and ethnic minority communities.

Resources

Literature review update on tobacco and black and ethnic minority communities (2010, PDF, 530 KB)
Oral Health & Trans-cultural Tobacco: A guide for health professionals & trans-cultural tobacco users (2009)
Briefing on tobacco use and minority ethnic groups (May 2008) (doc, 996 KB)
Briefing on types of tobacco used in some minority ethnic groups (May 2008) (doc, 927 KB)
Briefing paper on tobacco and black and ethnic minority communities (2005) (Outlining tobacco use prevalence, the effects of smoking and oral tobacco, the benefits and challenges of smoking cessation, recommendations for action)
A Mapping Exercise and Directory of Services, Resources and Training for Ethnicity, Mental Health and Older Adults (January 2005) (PDF, 221 KB)

Tobacco & Inequalities and PATH funded tobacco work

Organisation / Description

REACH Community Health Project (Glasgow) carried out a small piece of action research to examine the reasons why young people from the BME community smoke, their smoking patterns and views on current information on tobacco to inform the design of future health interventions.
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‘The prevalence and patterns of tobacco use by black and minority ethnic (BME) young people living in the southside of Glasgow’ (June 2007) (PDF, 211 KB)

REACH Community Health Project (Glasgow) through a successful second bid for funding built on the lessons from the above research to develop a audiovisual educational resource. The 'COOL’ DVD resource highlights the negative effect of smoking amongst 14-18 year olds and provides an innovative approach to highlighting the long term health and social effects that taking up smoking as a young person might have.
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Feedback report on producing the ‘COOL’ DVD (November 2007) (PDF, 329 KB)

Save the Children (Scotland) developed a tobacco awareness programme which targeted young Gypsy and Travellers. The project aimed to develop culturally appropriate resources and to build partnerships with mainstream services. ‘Double dykes’ a CD-ROM containing animated and acted adverts on the dangers of smoking developed in partnership with young gypsy and travellers was produced through project funding.
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Double Dykes – final report (August 2009) (PDF, 509 KB)

The Minority Ethnic Health inclusion project (Edinburgh) targeted their funding to raise awareness amongst the South Asian community and community leaders and practitioners in Edinburgh on the use of tobacco, paan and other smokeless tobacco products. Work also led to the development of an ‘Oral tobacco and oral health’ multimedia resource in partnership with the Edinburgh Dental Institute which will be launched in Autumn 2009.
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Case Study B (September 2007) (PDF, 593 KB) from the Tobacco and Inequalities external evaluation

The Edinburgh Dental Institute in partnership with the Minority Ethnic Health Inclusion Project (Edinburgh) addressed the issue of chewed tobacco and its impact on oral health. A multi-lingual patient information leaflets ‘Mouth cancer – how to prevent it’ has been produced highlighting the associated risks of chewed tobacco with oral cancer. Available in Arabic, Bangladeshi, Urdu, Chinese, Polish and English
For more information read: Case Study B (September 2007) (PDF, 593 KB) from the Tobacco and Inequalities external evaluation

Voluntary Action Lochaber (Fort William) looked at developing an accessible and culturally appropriate partnership approach to delivering stop-smoking support to gypsy and travellers involving the local stop smoking service and a gypsy and traveller Link worker.
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Healthy Routes (February 2007) (PDF, 455 KB)

In 2003 the University of Edinburgh conducted research through to develop a cross-culturally valid method for measuring prevalence of smoking and related behaviours in Punjabi, Urdu, Sylheti and Cantonese speaking populations.
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Relevant research

Find out about the latest UK and international ethnicity and tobacco research by visiting the 'Information' section
ASH Scotland needs assessment was conducted in 2003/4 to identify the main issues and challenges surrounding the use of tobacco amongst minority ethnic communities and to identify priorities for action for Phase 3 of the Tobacco and Inequalities initiative.

Last updated: 13 July 2010