widening inequalities in smoking initiation and cessation patterns a cohort and gender analysis in france开题资料.pdf

Drug and Alcohol Dependence 117 (2011) 233–241
Contents lists ava relative indices of inequality (RII), and the gender gap
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using odds ratios (gender ratios).
Gender
Tobacco Results: For smoking initiation, in the oldest cohorts, no educational gradient appeared in men, but there
Tobacco epidemic was a positive gradient in women (RII = ); in the middle cohorts, a negative gradient emerged in men
Education (RII = ), while the positive gradient reduced in women (RII = ); in the youngest cohorts, there was
Generations a strengthening of the negative gradient in men (RII = ), and the emergence of a negative gradient for
Time-discrete survival analysis women (RII = ). The gender ratio narrowed from the oldest cohorts () to the youngest (), and
diminished with increasing educational level within each cohort. For smoking cessation, the educational
gradients were negative in both genders, with wider gaps in the youngest cohorts, and gender ratios
below 1 r