ABSTRACT

Background: Tobacco use appears to be the major national largest preventable cause of death, having killed six million people and causing tens of billions of dollars of economic harm worldwide each year.

Aim: To assess prevalence patterns and the associated sociodemographic factors of tobacco consumption among health care worker at PHCs in Mosul City.

Methodology: "A descriptive study design" has been used to identify the prevalence tobacco use among healthcare workers at PHCs in Mosul City. The study Setting were select one health center from each quarters of Mosul city. Simple random methods used to select the health care workers. The study participants (168) and the data collected by self-administrated questionnaire based on previous study. Data obtained by interview technique and analyzed by descriptive statistics such as number, mean, frequency, standard deviation.

Results: the study finding indicated that the prevalence of tobacco use among health care workers in primary health care centers are 56(33.33%).

Conclusion: The study concluded that smoking is used by one-third of health workers in the primary health centers in the city of Mosul, and most of the smokers are among male and the nursing staff.

Keywords: Prevalence, Tobacco, Smoking