Healthcare Delivery Model: Prevention of Smoking Among Younger Adults

This report presents a healthcare delivery model aimed at preventing smoking among young adults in the United States, where cigarette smoking remains a leading cause of death. The model, grounded in the Ottawa Charter framework, focuses on building public health policies, creating supportive environments, strengthening community actions, developing skills to overcome smoking habits, and re-orienting healthcare services. Key strategies include offering assistance to fight depression, providing education and awareness through social media and community campaigns, utilizing nicotine replacement therapy, and implementing family-based interventions. Strengthening community-based action through nurses and social healthcare workers, along with behavioral approaches like problem-solving skill training, are also emphasized. The report concludes by advocating for primary healthcare setups in rural areas, rehabilitation centers in cities, community-based health education, and governmental programs to motivate young adults to quit smoking.

Healthcare Delivery Model for
the Prevention of Smoking
among the Younger adults
Presented by:

Introduction
• Cigarette smoking is a leading cause of
death in the United States (CDC, 2017)
• In 2017 14 out of 100 U.S adults who are
over 18 years are addicted to smoking
• The majority of them are young adults like
18 to 35 years old
• The current smoking rates have decrease to
14% from 20.9% since 2005 however, the %
of young adult smokers are still alarming
(CDC, 2017)

Other Statistic Related to Smoking
• The rate of smoking is higher among the non-
Hispanic Americans or who are from the
Indian or Alaskan Natives
• The young adults who are school drop-outs
have more tendencies to smoke
• Poor socio-economic status also increases the
tendency of smoking
(CDC, 2017)

Figure: The rate of smoking in different
states of U.S
(Source: CDC, 2017)

Importance of the Health Promotion Plan for
the Smoking Prevention
• Will help in the reducing smoking
addiction among the young adults
• Reduction in the tendency of
developing short-term health
consequences of smoking like
respiratory and non-respiratory
effects
• Reduction in the long term health
consequences
(World Health Organisation, 2019)

Health Delivery Model under the framework
for Ottawa Charter
It will deal with
• Building proper public health policy
• Creating supportive environment
• Strengthening Community Actions
• Development for the proper skills in
order to overcome smoking habits
• Re-orientation of the healthcare
service
• Increasing the prospect in the future
(World Health Organisation, 2019)

Building of the public health policy
• Smoking prevention public health policy must
be directed towards
• The exact need of the target population
• Assessment of the gap in the knowledge about
the impending disease outcome
• The estimated cost for the health care
promotion and the service delivery
• Probable outcomes

Creating Supportive Environment
Supportive environment for the
prevention of smoking among the
younger adults in the U.S will include
• Assistance to fight against depression
• Proper education and disease
awareness
• E-cigarette to cope with withdrawal
symptoms or use of Nicotine
replacement therapy
• Family based support

Offering Assistance
• The study conducted by Aveyard et al. (2012)
showed that the offering assistance to quit smoking
is more effective than advising smokers to quit
smoking
• Offering assistance: Mental health recovery:
Recovery from depression
• Regular counseling and community based
intervention programs will help to overcome
depression and thereby helping to quit smoking
(Tjora et al., 2014)

Education and Awareness
• The education and awareness is effective in
preventing smoking
• Education is given in the domain of harmful
effects of smoking and also knowledge about
the impending risk factors behind smoking
• Education can be given through launching social
media campaign, community based campaigns
• Community based campaign will deal with
audio-visual/powerpoint presentation in order
to make youth aware of the effects of smoking
and how it might hamper their quality of life
(Hornik, 2018)

Example of the Presentation
Style under the Community
Based Health Education
Campaign

Nicotine Replacement Therapy
• It provides Nicotine in the form of
Gum, patches, inhalers, spray and
lozenges but it is devoid of
harmful chemicals that are
present in tobacco
• It helps to relieve physical
withdrawal symptoms in order to
fight against the psychological
consequences of quitting
cigarette
(American Cancer Society, 2019)