The Mosque Project update

We have good news the Mosque project has been a success!  Combined with the mouth cancer screenings we have achieved for the first time a 50/50 recruitment rate with men and women.

The Mosque session have now finished and we are the data input and report writing stage.  We have heard that this project will get the go ahead to extended to other Mosques in the area with addition of extra resource – Watch this space!

Ramadan and Msc

It is now six days since the month of Ramadan has started. I am busy writing up my dissertation and I have to keep telling myself to keep at it, keep going as food used to be a good distraction to study.

I’m doing a desk based health impact assessment on the Bangladeshi Stop Tobacco Project and critiquing the available data published and unpublished (project reports) to highlight what worked and what didn’t. I was astonished by the amount of funds available for work with black and minority ethnic groups one particular one being the NHS cancer plan pledged £1 million to support BME initiatives. I was puzzled as to what was done with that money. I have been going over the mapping study (AGAIN! ) by Crosier and McNiell in 2003 and lo and behold, £750,000 of the Cancer Plan money in to the South Asian and Muslim Tobacco Education campaign. The rest went to fund smaller projects with faith based organizations.

I recommend the Bme Mapping study for anyone to read or reread as it is one of the best reports to base your local initiatives on.