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Socioeconomic differences in adolescents’ smoking: a comparison between Finland and Beijing, China

BACKGROUND: Various studies have demonstrated the associations between socioeconomic status (SES) and health and health behaviour among adolescents. However, few studies have compared the socioeconomic difference in adolescent smoking between countries with different stage of smoking. The purpose of...

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Autores principales: Liu, Yang, Wang, Mei, Tynjälä, Jorma, Villberg, Jari, Lv, Yan, Kannas, Lasse
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4989516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27534849
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3476-0
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author Liu, Yang
Wang, Mei
Tynjälä, Jorma
Villberg, Jari
Lv, Yan
Kannas, Lasse
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Wang, Mei
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Kannas, Lasse
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description BACKGROUND: Various studies have demonstrated the associations between socioeconomic status (SES) and health and health behaviour among adolescents. However, few studies have compared the socioeconomic difference in adolescent smoking between countries with different stage of smoking. The purpose of this study was to examine and compare the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and adolescent smoking in Beijing, China and Finland through the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study. METHODS: The data used in this study were derived from the Chinese HBSC linked project survey 2008 in Beijing and the Finnish HBSC survey 2006. The final sample included 2005 Chinese and 1685 Finnish 15-year-old schoolchildren. The associations between Family Affluence Scale (FAS), as the SES measure, and adolescents’ smoking behaviour, including ever smoked, weekly smoking and the early onset of smoking were examined separately in two countries through binary logistic regression. RESULTS: Compared to students from the high FAS group, Chinese boys from the low FAS group were more likely to report having ever smoked (OR = 2.12, 95 % CI = 1.49–3.01) and being early onset of smoking (OR = 2.17, 95 % CI = 1.44–3.26). Finnish girls from the low FAS group were more likely to report being weekly smokers (OR = 1.68, 95 % CI = 1.07–2.65). No significant difference was found for Chinese girls and Finnish boys. CONCLUSIONS: This study indicated different patterns of socioeconomic difference in smoking between Chinese and Finnish adolescents by gender and by smoking behaviour, which suggests that socioeconomic inequalities in smoking are different among adolescents in countries with different stage of smoking. Country specific policies and interventions for different target groups should be encouraged and designed for reducing the prevalence of adolescents’ smoking.
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spelling pubmed-49895162016-08-19 Socioeconomic differences in adolescents’ smoking: a comparison between Finland and Beijing, China Liu, Yang Wang, Mei Tynjälä, Jorma Villberg, Jari Lv, Yan Kannas, Lasse BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Various studies have demonstrated the associations between socioeconomic status (SES) and health and health behaviour among adolescents. However, few studies have compared the socioeconomic difference in adolescent smoking between countries with different stage of smoking. The purpose of this study was to examine and compare the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and adolescent smoking in Beijing, China and Finland through the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study. METHODS: The data used in this study were derived from the Chinese HBSC linked project survey 2008 in Beijing and the Finnish HBSC survey 2006. The final sample included 2005 Chinese and 1685 Finnish 15-year-old schoolchildren. The associations between Family Affluence Scale (FAS), as the SES measure, and adolescents’ smoking behaviour, including ever smoked, weekly smoking and the early onset of smoking were examined separately in two countries through binary logistic regression. RESULTS: Compared to students from the high FAS group, Chinese boys from the low FAS group were more likely to report having ever smoked (OR = 2.12, 95 % CI = 1.49–3.01) and being early onset of smoking (OR = 2.17, 95 % CI = 1.44–3.26). Finnish girls from the low FAS group were more likely to report being weekly smokers (OR = 1.68, 95 % CI = 1.07–2.65). No significant difference was found for Chinese girls and Finnish boys. CONCLUSIONS: This study indicated different patterns of socioeconomic difference in smoking between Chinese and Finnish adolescents by gender and by smoking behaviour, which suggests that socioeconomic inequalities in smoking are different among adolescents in countries with different stage of smoking. Country specific policies and interventions for different target groups should be encouraged and designed for reducing the prevalence of adolescents’ smoking. BioMed Central 2016-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4989516/ /pubmed/27534849 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3476-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Villberg, Jari
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title_full Socioeconomic differences in adolescents’ smoking: a comparison between Finland and Beijing, China
title_fullStr Socioeconomic differences in adolescents’ smoking: a comparison between Finland and Beijing, China
title_full_unstemmed Socioeconomic differences in adolescents’ smoking: a comparison between Finland and Beijing, China
title_short Socioeconomic differences in adolescents’ smoking: a comparison between Finland and Beijing, China
title_sort socioeconomic differences in adolescents’ smoking: a comparison between finland and beijing, china
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4989516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27534849
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3476-0
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