262380 Innovative approaches towards achieving smoke-free tribal casinos

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 : 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM

Francisco Buchting, PhD , Program Services Division, ETR Associates, Scotts Valley, CA
Narinder Dhaliwal, MA , Program Services Division, ETR Associates, Sacramento, CA
Juliet P. Lee, PhD , Prevention Research Center, Pacific Institute for Reseach and Evaluation, Berkeley, CA
Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, PhD, MPH , Department of Preventive Medicine, Institute for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Roland Moore, PhD , Prevention Research Center, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Berkeley, CA
Tribally owned casinos are one of the last public spaces of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure for employees and patrons in California. Innovative approaches to tobacco control and research efforts need to be considered when working in tribally owned casinos. Details on three approaches, including pros and cons, will be presented. ETR Associate's California's Clean Air Project (CCAP) and USC's Unidos en Casinos are two tobacco control projects employing different approaches toward moving tribal casino management and tribal leadership to smokefree casinos. CCAP's collaborative approach focuses on working with casino managers to move towards adopting and implementing voluntary smoke-free policies, this includes conducting air monitoring and surveying the clientele via mail. Unidos en Casinos approach focuses directly on labor by identifying unique ways to working with Latino workers in tribal casinos. The third approach is an ethnographic study being conducted by Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation and ETR Associates to better understand the process and practices of public health policy implementation that are culturally acceptable and business sensitive in tribal casinos.

Learning Areas:
Advocacy for health and health education
Diversity and culture
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Occupational health and safety
Public health or related public policy
Public health or related research

Learning Objectives:
1. Identify different approaches to working with tribal councils and casino management to adopt smoke-free casino policies. 2. Identify the strengths and weaknesses of selected strategies and the need for flexibility.

Keywords: Tobacco Policy, American Indians

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been a tobacco scientist and public health professionals for over 15 years both as pi and co-pi in tobacco related research projects and in tobacco control projects. I am also a scientist member of the Tobacco Research Network on Disparities funded by NCI and Legacy. Currently I am the co-pi on the a grant looking at SHS policies in tribal owned casinos.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.