Project Proposal for Management Team
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Project Proposal for Management Team
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[Organization Name][Date]PROJECT PROPOSAL[Project Name]Prepared for: Management teamPrepared by: 1
SummaryOnly 15% of the people in New Zealand have the bad habit of smoking, more orless 5000 people in New Zealand die for many smoking related diseases. Tobacco is theonly carcinogenic commodity, which is legally available in the New Zealand. The Ministryof health put an emphasis on the fact that smoking related deaths are preventable(Ttophs.govt.nz., 2017). The reason of selecting the health target “better help for thesmokers to quit” is to support and achieve the government’s vision of creating a smokefree New Zealand by 2025. The Government has set this target because; the evidencesuggested that creating smoke free environment is necessary as it would decrease theoverall number of youth up taking smoking. For the Bay of Plenty region, the governmenthas taken an initiative, named Tobacco control Strategic Action plan 2015-2018. Thereason to chose the region is the abundance of Maori people in that area and from therecord of Census 2015, in can be seen that the Maoris’ take up smoking at a very earlyage. The action plan has specifically targeted the youth, the pregnant women and theelderly to quit the bad habit. BackgroundThe Government has taken many health targets to secure the overall health service ofthe country population. The national health target of “Better help for smokers to quit” ischosen for this article. Smoking leaves a huge impact on the public health. Though 85%of the total New Zealanders do not smoke, many of them are exposed to the threat ofpassive smoking. The people of Maori tribe have the highest rate of smoking in NewZealand (Glover et al., 2014). Smoking is common in those areas, which has the highernumber of Maori population. Bay of Plenty is one of the places with highest Maoripopulation. The reason of choosing this initiative is the mortality rate of the bay of plentydue to smoking (Wilson, 2017).The New Zealand Ministry of Health has made a target of creating smoke freeNew Zealand by the year 2025. The New Zealand government has chosen an initiativefor controlling the use of Tobacco. It is estimated that in the Waikato region of the Bay ofPlenty area, there are approximately 43700 smokers of age 15 and over, which are moreor less 15.5% of the total population of Bay of Plenty. The chosen initiative which isneeded to fulfill the chosen National health target, is named Tobacco Control Strategic2
Action Plan 2015-2018. The main aim of the initiative is to help the smokers to quit. Theinitiative aims the government’s goal to make New Zealand smoke free until 2025(Tautolo et al., 2014). The target group of this initiative is the Maori and pacificpopulation, pregnant women, parents of the children under the age of five years and thepeople with mental illness. The initiative aims to half the current number of young peoplewho starts smoking at a young age (age range of 15-24) and to increase the number ofolder people who successfully quits this bad habit of smoking ( age range-25-69). Thehealth Ministry of New Zealand has started to fund the health promotion, smokingtermination providers and the advocacy of the initiative directly and indirectly through theBOPDHB Tobacco control agreement (Levy, Chaloupka, & Gitchell, 2004).3
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