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Tobacco and Indigenous Peoples

Australia

Australian Council on Smoking and Health – ACOSH
This website out lines ACOSH’s role in tobacco control and provides information about its various tobacco control programs including a section for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

The HealthInfoNet is a 'one-stop info-shop' that aims to contribute to 'closing the gap' in health between Indigenous and other Australians by informing practice and policy in Indigenous health by making research and other knowledge readily accessible. It also features a section on Indigenous tobacco use. It contains extensive links to programs, events, publications and training

Koori Druginfo
Alcohol and drug related information for the Koori community including a section on tobacco smoking.

National Action to reduce Indigenous Smoking rate website outlines the measures agreed to by the Federal Government together with the State and Territory Governments as part of the COAG 'Tackling Indigenous Smoking Initiative'

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Complementary Action Plan 2003-2009 has been researched and written to complement the issues raised in the National Drug Strategy and to make them more applicable to Indigenous peoples. Within this complementary action plan, tobacco is recognised as a major factor contributing to the ill-health of Indigenous peoples.

 

New Zealand

Auahi Kore : Smokefree Maori
This site has information on Maori smoking rates and health effects including a fact sheet written in Maori.

Te Reo Marama is a Tobacco Resistance movement advocating for a smoke-free Maori people. This website contains information about the tobacco industry, leadership, campaigns, success stories, quitting, statistics etc. 

 

Canada 

Clean Air Coalition British Columbia
This website contains information about mainstream tobacco control in the Canadian province of British Columbia and includes profiles of Indigenous specific research projects at http://www.cleanaircoalitionbc.com/index.html

Health Canada : First Nations and Inuit Health (Tobacco)
Health Canada promotes tobacco control and provides resources to communities with a view to improving the health status of First Nations and Inuit people. There are sections on supporting communities, quitting smoking and health effects specifically for Aboriginal peoples.

Inuit Tobacco Free Network - This website is for health workers working in remote Inuit communities in Canada.

 

Non-Indigenous Tobacco Control

Australia

Australian Council on Smoking and Health – ACOSH
This website out lines ACOSH’s role in tobacco control and provides information about its various tobacco control programs including a section for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

ASH Australia
This is a national health group dedicated to reducing tobacco diseases, disability and premature deaths caused by tobacco products. A non-government and not-for-profit organisation, ASH was established in 1994 by the Cancer Council NSW and the National Heart Foundation of Australia to protect and improve the health of the community through education, policy advice and information programs.

Department of Health and Ageing
A comprehensive Government site with a link to the National Tobacco Strategy and broader tobacco control policies such as taxation, pricing and advertising.

OxyGen
Tobacco information website for upper primary and secondary school aged kids. This is a website put together by Quit SA, WA and Vic.

The National Tobacco Campaign
A federal, state and territory health initiative supported by Population Health Division, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.

Tobacco Control Supersite
Recommended for tertiary student resources. Links to Tobacco Industry documents and other Australian and international information.

VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control
This site provides information about the VCTC and its research well as links to important repositories of knowledge on tobacco control both here and overseas.

 

State Quitting Organisations

 

Cancer Council Quit websites

 

State Government Health Departments and Tobacco Control

State Health Department websites will have information on Government legislation, state based tobacco control initiatives, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health initiatives, and provide links to quitting resources available in your state.

 

International Tobacco Control

ASH UK is a campaigning public health charity that works to eliminate the harm caused by tobacco and focuses on information sharing, networking, advocacy and campaigning.

John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Global Tobacco Control Website
With a funding commitment of $125 million, the Bloomberg Global Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use represents the largest-ever effort to fight tobacco in the low- and middle-income countries that are now home to a majority of the world's smokers. This site offers free instructional training for policy makers, researchers, educators and the general public. They help participants develop and implement effective tobacco control programs, advocate for substantial anti-smoking regulations and craft media campaigns that make a difference. Their multimedia educational modules feature tobacco control experts from around the world. The curriculum was developed by faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the premier source for research and policy guidance on how to stem the global epidemic of tobacco-related cancer deaths.

WHO: Tobacco
This webpage provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programmes and offices working on this topic. Also shown are links to related web sites and topics.

GLOBALink
Globalink is an international consortium of tobacco control organisations and their website offers news, reports and links to other information related to tobacco control.

 

Aboriginal Health

Department of Health and Ageing, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health website contains information about programs and contacts numbers for OATSIH. The Closing the Gap in Chronic Disease section has information about the package as well as information specific to the Tackling Smoking Initiative.

The HealthInfoNet is a 'one-stop info-shop' that aims to contribute to 'closing the gap' in health between Indigenous and other Australians by informing practice and policy in Indigenous health by making research and other knowledge readily accessible. It also features a section on

Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Research Unit
Onemda is a Koori Teaching and Research Unit based within the University of Melbourne

The Lowitja Institute, Australia’s National Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research, is an innovative research body that brings together Aboriginal organisations, academic institutions and government agencies to facilitate collaborative, evidence-based research into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.

Australian Indigenous Health Promotion Knowledge Network (AIHKPN)

Menzies School of Health Research MSHR is recognised as a national leader in Indigenous, tropical and remote health research, and as an innovative centre for public health training and research education.

ABC Indigenous is part of the Australian Broadcast Commission website dedicated to Indigenous affairs and includes podcasts and transcripts of programs broadcast through the ABC television and radio network.

 

National, State and Territory Community Controlled Health Organisations

Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia (AHCSA)
AHCSA is the peak body representing Aboriginal community controlled health and substance misuse services in South Australia at a state and national level.

Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia (AHCWA) is the peak body representing Aboriginal community controlled health and substance misuse services in Western Australia at a state and national level.

Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory (AMSANT)
AMSANT is a forum for community controlled health services in the Northern Territory of Australia to lobby for positive changes to the health of Aboriginal people.

National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)
NACCHO is the national peak Aboriginal health body representing Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services throughout Australia.

NSW Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council (AHMRC)
The Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of New South Wales (AH&MRC) is the peak body for Aboriginal health in NSW and is comprised of over 60 Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations throughout the state.

Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Federation (QAIHF)
QAIHF is the peak body representing Aboriginal community controlled health and substance misuse services in Queensland at a state and national level.

Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO)
VACCHO is the collective of all Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services around Victoria.