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Smoking treatment and inequalities in health
Linda Bauld
Abstract
Tobacco-related diseases are the main cause of social inequalities in avoidable morbidity and premature mortality in the UK. As a consequence tobacco control policies in general and smoking treatment
services in particular are central planks in efforts to reduce health inequalities. However, a common concern about health promotion efforts such as smoking cessation is that they inadvertently exacerbate the health divide between social groups because more affluent and educated people tend to take advantage of them. The main aim of this presentation is to use data from several studies of smoking in England and Scotland to investigate the extent to which services can help to reduce such inequalities. These studies have examined the extent to which services are successful in reaching disadvantaged smokers and helping them to quit. In addition, some data are now available for Britain as a whole that highlight differences between
social groups in terms of attitudes and access to support to quit. The presentation will bring together these
different strands of evidence to draw some overall conclusions regarding the potential for treatment services to address smoking-related inequalities in health, and outline the implications for policy, practice and future
research.
Biography
Dr Linda Bauld is a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests centre around the evaluation of community-based health interventions, with a particular interest in tobacco policy. For the past seven years much of her research has involved the evaluation of smoking treatment services in the UK. She was a member of the research team that conducted the national evaluation of smoking cessation services in England. More recently she has lead a number of studies of smoking cessation in Scotland including research with services in Fife and Glasgow and across Scotland as part of the ASH Scotland Tobacco and Inequalities initiative. In addition to her research responsibilities she has served as a consultant to the Scottish Executive and several local authorities. From September 2006 she will move to a post as Reader in Social Policy at the University of Bath.
Dr. Linda Bauld
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
University of Glasgow
25 Bute Gardens
Glasgow
Scotland
G12 8RS
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