Area-Level Characteristics and Smoking in Women

Adult 330 Health Behavior 610 White People 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Residence Characteristics Poverty Areas North Carolina Prevalence Humans Smoking Censuses Middle Aged Kinesiology 3. Good health Black or African American Crowding Logistic Models Socioeconomic Factors Women's Health Female Crime Stress, Psychological
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.91.11.1847 Publication Date: 2008-11-29T13:33:29Z
ABSTRACT
Objectives. This study examined whether area-level characteristics are associated with individual smoking behavior among women. Methods. Analyses included 648 women enrolled as control patients in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study (1993–1996). Smoking and covariate information was obtained from interviews. Area-level census block-group education level, poverty, unemployment, car–home ownership, crowding, and, for 431 women, city-level crime rates. Results. In multivariate logistic regression models, no area were clearly a history of smoking. Among those who had ever smoked, continued living low-education areas (odds ratio [OR] = 1.7, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.0, 2.9), highunemployment (OR CI 2.8), high-crime 1.6, 0.8, 3.2). Conclusions. The present findings consistent growing literature suggesting that social economic disadvantage influences behavior.
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