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Community Mapping: A Tool in the Fight Against Cigarette Smoking on American Indian Reservations

Roxanne Struthers, PhD, RN

University of Minnesota School of Nursing

Felicia Schanche Hodge, DrPH

Center for American Indian Research and Education at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing

Betty Geishirt-Cantrell, MSSW, MBA

Center for American Indian Research & Education

John Casken, MPH, PhD

School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene at the University of Hawaii, Manoa

Community mapping is a helpful tool for health planners and educators, policy makers, providers, and nurses. Community mapping provides a systematic process for identifying capacities, barriers, identified goals, and serves as a resource for mobilizing neighborhoods to solve problems. The Tobacco Policies Among Plains Tribes Project conducted a community mapping process at 7 Sioux, Ojibwe, and Winnebago reservations. The purpose was to document cigarette sales and smoking activity to establish environmental influences and behaviors surrounding tobacco abuse. Mixed qualitative research methods were used. Structured observations were conducted, photographs were taken, and tribal authorities were contacted regarding smoking policies. Formal policies related to cigarette-smoking sanctions were scarce. The community mapping tool provided information for tribal policy makers and health planners. Developing culturally appropriate health policies and interventions for poor, underserved, and minority communities may be accomplished via community mapping techniques.

Key Words: community mapping • tobacco policies • American Indian • public health policy • epidemiology • cigarette smoking • lung cancer

Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, Vol. 4, No. 4, 295-302 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1527154403258314
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