Implementing FCTC Article 17 Through Participatory Research With Bidi Workers in Tamil Nadu, India.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The exploitation, poor conditions, and precarity in the bidi (hand-rolled leaf cigarette) industry in India make it ripe for the application of the FCTC's Article 17, "Provision of support for economically viable alternative activities". "Bottom-up", participatory approaches give scope to explore bidi rollers' own circumstances, experiences, and aspirations.

Methods

A team of six community health volunteers using a participatory research orientation developed a questionnaire-based semi-structured interview tool. Forty-six bidi rolling women were interviewed by pairs of volunteers in two northern Tamil Nadu cities. Two follow-up focus groups were also held. A panel of 11 bidi rollers attended a workshop at which the findings from the interviews and focus groups w

SUBMITTER: Russell A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9597000 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature