Community Insight Into Turkish and Kurdish smoking related behaviour and attitudes in Hackney
| Author(s)
Fred Agbah
| | Presenter(s) |
Fred Agbah Smoking Cessation Service Manager, Shoreditch Trust, London | Abstract This community consultation with smokers and non-smokers, (that is, both ex-smokers and those who have never smoked) from the Turkish, Kurdish and Turkish Cypriot communities of Hackney builds on limited research concerning smoking behaviour within this demographic. The most recent piece of work commissioned by Hackney in this area was in 2009.
The presentation represents a snapshot of attitudes and concerns around tobacco use, including cigarettes, niche tobacco products such as chewing tobacco, Shisha (also known as water pipes) and smokeless tobacco such as snuff.
This new work was commissioned “To enable different communities to speak directly to policy makers about issues that affect their health and to have discussions within communities about what factors may support community members to make healthier choices.”
Our enquiry focuses on four areas –
1. When people in the Turkish, Kurdish and Turkish Cypriot community start smoking or using tobacco products and why
2. If people feel that the Turkish and Kurdish community has more tobacco users than other communities and if so why
3. How the Turkish and Kurdish community can be supported to quit smoking and stop young people from starting smoking
4. Attitudes to secondhand smoke within the community
| Presenter biography Fred Agbah is a qualified smoking cessation and adult education practitioner with a background in project management, community health and campaigns. Her career has predominantly been based within multidisciplinary teams, working with hard to reach and hard to treat communities. She has extensive experience of work with vulnerable adults, disadvantaged groups and BME populations within the homelessness and health improvement fields.
With twelve years experience in community development and health improvement, leading on single and joint initiatives, Fred’s work has covered volunteer management, community outreach, group facilitation, teaching, case work, and service delivery within the NHS and third sector.
| Source of funding: City & Hackney Health & Social Care Forum
| Declaration of interest: None
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