B4. Oral Session: Tobacco Products and E-Cigarettes: Smoking Cessation Among Specific Populations in NYC and California
B4.03 - Oral: The Relevance of Place-based Public Health in Commercial Tobacco Control in California
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM PST
Location: Gallerie I, 1st Floor
Earn 1.0 Advanced CECH
Area of Responsibility: Area I: Assessment of Needs and Capacity Subcompetencies: 4.2.7 Select quantitative and qualitative tools consistent with assumptions and data requirements., 4.3.6 Analyze data.
Evaluator UCSF Richmond, California, United States
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
Discuss population-relevant tailored interventions that are more effective and sustainable within marginalized communities disproportionately impacted by tobacco-related health outcomes.
Identify at least two of the five associated aspects of place-based public health.
Define Place-Based Public Health
Brief Abstract Summary: Place-based public health approaches recognize that health outcomes are influenced not only by individual behavior and genetics but also by the environments in which people live, work, and play. Through a place-based public health framework, we will explore connections between housing, social determinants of health (SDOH), racial residential housing segregation, and commercial tobacco control. The framework allows us to develop population-relevant tailored interventions that are more effective and sustainable within marginalized communities disproportionately impacted by tobacco-related health outcomes.
Detailed abstract description: We will review place-based public health frameworks and their application to commercial tobacco control efforts that target California’s marginalized populations (i.e., African American, American Indian, Asian American/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders, Latino, Rural, and LGBTQ+), review indexes (i.e., Social Progress Index, Healthy Places Index) and data sources that can be used to identify neighborhoods and communities of concern, and discuss the value of community-based participatory needs assessment in elevating individual and community lived experience in root cause problem identification related to tobacco-related health outcomes, intervention/strategy design and implementation. We also explore how attention to social infrastructure can leverage the network of social connections, relationships, and institutions that collectively support and shape the well-being of communities and that significantly influence community resilience and overall health in tobacco control strategies. These approaches inform tailored interventions that are more relevant as targeting interventions toward these populations is essential for achieving health equity and reducing disparities in tobacco-related health outcomes. We will offer practice and policy implications and recommendations related to tobacco control.
