S3 Ep. 32 Exploring Attitudes Towards Policies Restricting Indoor Smoking in Subsidized Housing with ​Dr. Maya Vijayaraghavan and Dr. Margaret Handley

"It's really important to have people do the work, the slow work often, of walking around a neighborhood, in this case, and really looking at what's actually on the ground, literally, like, where are the cigarette butts, where are things happening, what does the safety look like?"

In this episode, Dr. Maya Vijayaraghavan and Dr. Margaret Handley discuss clean air policies that limit indoor smoking in subsidized housing. They break down their multi-method approach which allows for a comprehensive approach to policy questions that expands past individual behaviors and recognizes the policy, environmental, and social context of behavior change and the need to intervene at each of these levels to facilitate behavior change. They remind us that ground truthing can help unpack and develop non-coercive incentive-based programs and policies with buy in from residents and staff.

This episode references the article titled "Multi-Level Influences of Smoke-Free Policies in Subsidized Housing: Applying the COM-B Model and Neighborhood Assessments to Inform Smoke-Free Policies" by Maya Vijayaraghavan, MD, MAS, Marlena Hartman-Filson, MSW, Priyanka Vyas, PhD, Toshali Katyal, BA, Tram Nguyen, BA, and Margaret A. Handley, PhD, MPH.