Faktor Yang Mempengaruhi dan Upaya Meningkatkan Peran Serta Masyarakat dalam Mewujudkan Kawasan Tanpa Rokok

Government has established smoke-free area as an effort to protect community from the dangers of smoke. Previous studies showed that the implementation of that policy has not optimzed yet due to lack of participation from targeted community. The purpose of this article is to discuss the influencing factors and the efforts to increase community participation to create the smoke free areas based on the change behavior theory from Lawrence Green. This article was a literature review. The data was obtained from secondary resources. The influencing factors to increase community participation in smoke-free area establishment can be divided into three factors, i.e: (1) Predisposing factors, including knowledge, attitudes and beliefs related to smoking behavior; (2) Possible factors, including the availability of affordable community-stop smoking clinics and smoking rooms in permitted smoke-free areas; (3) Strengthening factors, including exemplary from the role models and the implementation of laws, regulations related to health. The efforts to increase community participation in realizing smoke-free area can be done in through: (1) Increasing public knowledge (2). Providing affordable community smoking clinics, (3) Providing smoking rooms in permitted smoke-free areas; (4) Improving the exemplary of the employee at the smoke-free areas on the implementation of smoke-free area policy; (5) The arrangement of technical instructions to support smoke-fre area policy.

Keywords : community participation, influencing factors, efforts to improve, Smok-Free Area