What Is The NSW Tobacco Strategy's Intersectoral Approach To Health Promotion?

Individuals, communities and governments' intersectoral approach addressing health promotion significantly heightens the success rate of the health outcomes of priority health issues in Australia. Due to their partnerships, it advocates a higher increase in access to resources and health services, increases cost-effectiveness and spreads awareness to a larger population group. Referring to the NSW Tobacco Strategy’s intersectoral approach being a health promotion that is inclusive of all levels of government, collaborating with communities and development campaigns for individuals allows The NSW Tobacco Strategy to have a higher success rate in supporting the decrease in the prevalence of smoking rates.

The partnership allows individuals

The resources supplied include educational information that allows individuals to better understand health risks and consequences for them and then to be able to take responsibility for their own health and make appropriate health decisions. Two of the three components of the NSW Tobacco Strategy are devoted to partnerships and the actions taken by them. The Cancer Institute NSW has implemented over 40 anti-tobacco campaigns that motivate smokers to quit. ‘The Critic's choice’ is a health promotion implemented by the NSW Government in primary schools with a target audience of kindergarten to year six. It consists of a discussion of 12 anti-smoking campaigns from all over the world. The students are able to gain knowledge about the risk factors and their long-term effects. In-school campaigns such as the ‘Critics choice’ appeal to the younger audience as they are more easily influenced by graphic and serious campaigns. The purpose of educating younger generations is for the individuals to be able to understand the danger, therefore less likely to experiment with

The NSW Tobacco Strategy aims to reduce the smoking prevalence as a whole but also focuses on disadvantaged priority groups such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (ATSI). ATSI experience greater levels of chronic diseases and injury and typically have stronger life expectancies. Tobacco significantly contributes to 17 per cent of the population's health gap and 12 per cent of the total burden of disease, therefore making it one of the top health risk factors for the ATSI community. As a result, referring to the NSW Tobacco Strategy, NSW Health, the Cancer Institute, and non-government organisations have worked together to train Indigenous health professionals in the ATSI communities so they can better assist smokers in quitting and create community tobacco control initiatives. Through the approach, it decreased the ATSI smoking rates by 10 per cent over a 20-year time period. As well as attempting to reduce the prevalence of ATSI pregnant women's rates of smoking. The NSW Tobacco Strategy target is to ‘reduce the rate of smoking by Aborignal pregnant comen by 2 per cent per year’. This target is to help achieve safer communities and homes not only for women but others. The prevalence of second-hand smoke exposure is slowly increasing, therefore harming the lungs of others, especially children due to immature and