Identifying LGBT Specific Best and Promising Practices for Tobacco Control

Buchting, Francisco

Friday, August 17, 2012: 8:00 AM

2215B (Kansas City Convention Center)

Dr. Francisco Buchting, PhD , Program Services Division, ETR Associates, Scotts Valley, CA

Mr. Joseph Lee, MPH, CPH , Department of Health Behavior & Health Education, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

Dr. Alicia Matthews, Ph.D. , College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago and Howard Brown Health Center, Chicago , IL

Mr. S Scout, PhD , Network for LGBT Health Equity, Boston, MA

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this presentation attendees will be able to:

Describe how the adapted EMPOWERED models can be used to address LGBT communities tobacco control to decrease tobacco health disparities
Identify and explain best and promising practices for effective and culturally appropriate tobacco control
Demonstrate how these LGBT best and promising tobacco control practices can be used by States, public health departments, local programs, funders, and tobacco control practitioners.

Cross Cutting Program Area(s): Increasing Diversity/Eliminating Disparities and Tobacco Control Policies

Audience: States, public health departments, local programs, funders, and tobacco control practitioners.

Key Points:

A history of health discrimination has resulted in LGBT communities being largely ignored in mainstream tobacco prevention and control initiatives; yet, tobacco industry targeting has resulted in large tobacco-use disparities for LGBT communities. To address the gap in LGBT specific best practices for tobacco prevention and control, the Network for LGBT Health Equity used an expert panel and systematic screening method to identify practice-based evidence from across the U.S. Using this process, we provide LGBT specific recommendations for each of the broad areas identified in the WHO’s MPOWER framework and added two additional areas: (1) Engagement with diverse communities and (2) Development of stronger evaluation. We present the resulting “queered” version, MPOWERED, to document best and promising and illustrate real-world examples from across the U.S. We detail how tobacco control practitioners can use MPOWERED LGBT best and promising practices for culturally appropriate LGBT tobacco control in order to fight endemic tobacco disparities in LGBT communities.

Educational Experience: We present the MPOWERED framework, illustrating with innovative programs developed locally across the United States.

Benefits: To improve program delivery, practice-based evidence is needed to supplement researcher-driven evidence. Participants will leave will real examples of programs designed by and for LGBT communities across the U.S. and with a clear understanding of the best and promising practices for addressing a pervasive health disparity for LGBT communities.