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
AUTHORS (4)
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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