1Doctoral Student Program, Epidemiology, UNHAS, Makassar
2Professor of Epidemiology, UNHAS, Makassar
3Lecturer of Biostatistics, UNHAS, Makassar
4Lecturer of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Public Health, UNHAS, Makassar
5Lecturer at the Faculty of Public Health, Alauddin State Islamic University, Makassar
6Lecturer of Hiperkes and Occupational Safety at the Hiperkes Academy, Makassar
*Corresponding Author: Ria Rezeki Sudarmin, Doctoral Student Program, Faculty of Public Health, UNHAS, Makassar Phone: 085299928286, Email: rezekiria@ymail.com
Online published on 19 August, 2019.
Smoking is a serious threat to global health, around 1.3 billion tobacco users have nearly 6 million people who die each year due to diseases that arise from tobacco use. Smoking behavior not only can trigger NCDs (Non-Communicable Disease) but it also has an effect on economic problems, the more cigarettes consumed, the higher the costs that will be incurred due to health care and the cost of death due to diseases that arise from smoking behavior. Comprehensive smoking behavior problems which are caused not only by psychological and pharmacological factors but also social and environmental needs a community approach to control these behaviors.
This study aims to collect and analyze articles related to the application of community models in an effort to control smoking behavior. The design used is the literature review, articles are collected using search engines such as ProQuest, BMC Public Health, Google Scholar and Plos One. Criteria article used was published in 2007–2017. Based on the collected articles, the result is found that the community-based approach can be applied in the context of controlling smoking behavior as an effort to move the community and to modify the social environment that can support the creation of behavioral changes and to control smoking behavior.
Smoking Behavior, Community Approach, Control smoking
