APPEAL created a leadership model that integrates health equity into community programming and policy change to address upstream factors that impact social determinants of health. APPEAL leverage s this model to develop tailored interventions and policy in its collaborative efforts with community and state partners to provide appropriate technical assistance and training content.
Assess Tobacco Influences Using Photovoice and Geographic Information Systems
Countering Tobacco Industry, Photovoice/Digital Storytelling, Repository, Tobacco Control and Prevention, Youth Engagement English Coalitions, Community Based Organizations, Policymakers, Teens/Adolescents (13-18) Promising Practice ProgramsAsian American and Pacific Islander youth use photography and mapping techniques to analyze tobacco initiation influences on the community built environment. These efforts demonstrated to law makers a need for stronger zoning and licensing requirements for tobacco vendors to curb tobacco propaganda and reduce early tobacco initiation in communities of youth.