Socioeconomic and geographic inequalities in adolescent smoking: A multilevel cross-sectional study of 15 year olds in Scotland

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 107, Issue , 2014, Pages 162-170

  Levin, K A ^a,e   Dundas, R ^b   Miller, M ^c   McCartney, G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d NHS HEALTH SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^e LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Multilevel modelling; Scotland; Smoking; Socioeconomic inequalities; Urban rural

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; MARKOV CHAIN; MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NEIGHBORHOOD; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL AREA; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT SMOKING; AGE; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING REGULATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIALIZATION; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

ADOLESCENT; MULTILEVEL MODELLING; SCOTLAND; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC INEQUALITIES; URBAN-RURAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; POVERTY AREAS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SCOTLAND; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84897002222     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.02.016     Document Type: Article

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