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Trends in socioeconomic inequalities among adult male hardcore smokers in Vietnam: 2010–2015

BACKGROUND: Despite male smokers being dominant in Vietnam, scarce evidence on trends in socioeconomics inequalities among the hardcore male smokers is available in the country. In this study, we aimed at assessing the trends in socioeconomics inequalities among the hardcore smokers in adult male po...

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Autores principales: Kien, Vu Duy, Jat, Tej Ram, Giang, Kim Bao, Hai, Phan Thi, Huyen, Doan Thi Thu, Khue, Luong Ngoc, Lam, Nguyen Tuan, Nga, Phan Thi Quynh, Quan, Nguyen The, Van Minh, Hoang
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5513204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28705253
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-017-0623-x
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author Kien, Vu Duy
Jat, Tej Ram
Giang, Kim Bao
Hai, Phan Thi
Huyen, Doan Thi Thu
Khue, Luong Ngoc
Lam, Nguyen Tuan
Nga, Phan Thi Quynh
Quan, Nguyen The
Van Minh, Hoang
author_facet Kien, Vu Duy
Jat, Tej Ram
Giang, Kim Bao
Hai, Phan Thi
Huyen, Doan Thi Thu
Khue, Luong Ngoc
Lam, Nguyen Tuan
Nga, Phan Thi Quynh
Quan, Nguyen The
Van Minh, Hoang
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description BACKGROUND: Despite male smokers being dominant in Vietnam, scarce evidence on trends in socioeconomics inequalities among the hardcore male smokers is available in the country. In this study, we aimed at assessing the trends in socioeconomics inequalities among the hardcore smokers in adult male population in Vietnam over a five-year period from 2010 to 2015. METHODS: We used data from two rounds of the Vietnam Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) conducted in 2010 and 2015. We included only men aged 25 years and above in the analysis. We measured socioeconomic inequalities among hardcore smokers by calculating the concentration index. We conducted multiple logistic regression analysis to identify factors associated with hardcore smoking among men aged 25 years and above. RESULTS: The results of this study showed that the prevalence of male hardcore smokers aged 25 years and above in Vietnam was 9.5% in 2010 which increased to 13.1% in 2015. The prevalence of male hardcore smokers declined in the richest group from the 2010 level whereas it increased in the middle, poor and poorest groups. All values of weighted concentration indices indicated that the prevalence of male hardcore smokers occurred more among the poor men in Vietnam in both 2010 and 2015. The socioeconomic inequalities in hardcore smokers increased during 2010 and 2015. Residence in urban areas was significantly associated with higher adult male hardcore smoking in our study. Belonging to the age groups between 40 and 59 years, attaining primary and lower education, being self-employed, belonging to the poorest household group, smoking being allowed at home and no rule for smoking at home were associated with higher risk of being hardcore smoker among adult males in Vietnam. CONCLUSIONS: We found increased trends in socioeconomic inequalities in hardcore smoking among the study population. Our study results indicate that existing smoking secession and tobacco control policy and interventions need to be modified or new policies and interventions should be introduced with the perspective of addressing socioeconomic inequalities to have the desired impact. We recommend implementing specific targeted interventions for vulnerable population groups for better results.
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spelling pubmed-55132042017-07-19 Trends in socioeconomic inequalities among adult male hardcore smokers in Vietnam: 2010–2015 Kien, Vu Duy Jat, Tej Ram Giang, Kim Bao Hai, Phan Thi Huyen, Doan Thi Thu Khue, Luong Ngoc Lam, Nguyen Tuan Nga, Phan Thi Quynh Quan, Nguyen The Van Minh, Hoang Int J Equity Health Research BACKGROUND: Despite male smokers being dominant in Vietnam, scarce evidence on trends in socioeconomics inequalities among the hardcore male smokers is available in the country. In this study, we aimed at assessing the trends in socioeconomics inequalities among the hardcore smokers in adult male population in Vietnam over a five-year period from 2010 to 2015. METHODS: We used data from two rounds of the Vietnam Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) conducted in 2010 and 2015. We included only men aged 25 years and above in the analysis. We measured socioeconomic inequalities among hardcore smokers by calculating the concentration index. We conducted multiple logistic regression analysis to identify factors associated with hardcore smoking among men aged 25 years and above. RESULTS: The results of this study showed that the prevalence of male hardcore smokers aged 25 years and above in Vietnam was 9.5% in 2010 which increased to 13.1% in 2015. The prevalence of male hardcore smokers declined in the richest group from the 2010 level whereas it increased in the middle, poor and poorest groups. All values of weighted concentration indices indicated that the prevalence of male hardcore smokers occurred more among the poor men in Vietnam in both 2010 and 2015. The socioeconomic inequalities in hardcore smokers increased during 2010 and 2015. Residence in urban areas was significantly associated with higher adult male hardcore smoking in our study. Belonging to the age groups between 40 and 59 years, attaining primary and lower education, being self-employed, belonging to the poorest household group, smoking being allowed at home and no rule for smoking at home were associated with higher risk of being hardcore smoker among adult males in Vietnam. CONCLUSIONS: We found increased trends in socioeconomic inequalities in hardcore smoking among the study population. Our study results indicate that existing smoking secession and tobacco control policy and interventions need to be modified or new policies and interventions should be introduced with the perspective of addressing socioeconomic inequalities to have the desired impact. We recommend implementing specific targeted interventions for vulnerable population groups for better results. BioMed Central 2017-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5513204/ /pubmed/28705253 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-017-0623-x Text en © The Author(s). 2017 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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Kien, Vu Duy
Jat, Tej Ram
Giang, Kim Bao
Hai, Phan Thi
Huyen, Doan Thi Thu
Khue, Luong Ngoc
Lam, Nguyen Tuan
Nga, Phan Thi Quynh
Quan, Nguyen The
Van Minh, Hoang
Trends in socioeconomic inequalities among adult male hardcore smokers in Vietnam: 2010–2015
title Trends in socioeconomic inequalities among adult male hardcore smokers in Vietnam: 2010–2015
title_full Trends in socioeconomic inequalities among adult male hardcore smokers in Vietnam: 2010–2015
title_fullStr Trends in socioeconomic inequalities among adult male hardcore smokers in Vietnam: 2010–2015
title_full_unstemmed Trends in socioeconomic inequalities among adult male hardcore smokers in Vietnam: 2010–2015
title_short Trends in socioeconomic inequalities among adult male hardcore smokers in Vietnam: 2010–2015
title_sort trends in socioeconomic inequalities among adult male hardcore smokers in vietnam: 2010–2015
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5513204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28705253
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-017-0623-x
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