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Cohort changes in educational disparities in smoking

France, Germany and the United States

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ID4598669
AuthorsF C Pampel (0000-0003-4172-9343, University of Colorado Boulder), Fred Pampel, Stéphane Legleye (0000-0002-1704-2499, Délégation Paris 5), Céline Goffette (Institut national d'études démographiques), Daniela Piontek (0000-0002-7224-4309, IFT Institut für Therapieforschung), Lisa Kraus (0000-0001-7282-0217, IFT Institut für Therapieforschung), Ludwig Kraus, Myriam Khlat (0000-0002-6674-3718, Institut national d'études démographiques, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume127
Pages41-50
Publication date2015-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Science & Medicine (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.06.033
PMID25037853
OpenAlexW2052085556
LanguageEN
Citations received27
References cited44

This study investigates the evolution of educational disparities in smoking uptake across cohorts for men and women in three countries. Nationally representative surveys of adults in France, Germany and the United States in 2009-2010 include retrospective measures of age of uptake that are compared for three cohorts (born 1946-1960, 1961-1975, and 1976-1992). Discrete logistic regressions and a relative measure of education are used to model smoking histories until age 34. The following patterns are found: a strengthening of educational disparities in the timing of uptake from older to younger cohorts; an earlier occurrence of the strengthening for men than women and for the United States than France or Germany; a faster pace of the epidemic in France than in the United States, and; a divide between the highest level of education and the others in the United States, as opposed to a gradient across categories in France. Those differences in smoking disparities across cohorts, genders and countries help identify the national and temporal circumstances that shape the size and direction of the relationship between education and health and the need for policies that target educational disparities

Cohort · Cohort effect · Cohort study · Geography · Pace · Population · Smoking prevalence · Sociology · Air Quality and Health Impacts · Demography · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Smoking Behavior and Cessation · Gerontology

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Unique citing works27
Citations per year2,45
Citation span2015 - 2026 (12)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 27

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