Health-Care Provider Screening for Tobacco Smoking and Advice to Quit – 17 Countries 2008-2011
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. MMWR Weekly. 22
Nov 2013/62(46);920-927http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6246a4.htm?s_cid=mm6246a4_w
This report examines the proportion of tobacco smokers in 17
countries responding to the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) who saw a
health-care provider in the past year and who reported that a health-care
provider asked them about smoking and advised them to quit. Respondents were
tobacco smokers aged ≥15 years surveyed during 2008–2011 in Bangladesh, Brazil,
China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, Romania,
Russia, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, and Vietnam. The proportion of
smokers who had visited a health-care provider during the previous 12 months
ranged from 21.6% in Egypt to 62.3% in Poland. Among these, the proportion
reporting that a health-care provider asked if they smoked ranged from 34.9% in
Vietnam to 82.1% in Romania. Among those screened for tobacco use, those who
reported their health-care providers advised them to quit ranged from 17.3% in
Mexico to 67.3% in Romania. In most countries, persons aged ≥45 years were more
likely to report being screened and advised to quit than were persons aged ≤24
years.
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