A Transnational Study of Migration and Smoking Behavior in the Mexican-Origin Population.
Objectives. We examined migration-related changes in smoking behavior in the transnational Mexican-origin population. Methods. We combined epidemiological surveys from Mexico (Mexican National Comorbidity Survey) and the United States (Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys). We compared 4 g...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 102; no. 11; pp. 2116 - 2123 |
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American Public Health Association
Nov2012
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=104431245&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 104431245 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00900036 APH jtl: American Journal of Public Health issn: 00900036 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Nov2012 vid: 102 iid: 11 pid: 44 pub: American Public Health Association artinfo: ui: 104431245 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300739 ppf: 2116 ppct: 7 formats: tig: atl: A Transnational Study of Migration and Smoking Behavior in the Mexican-Origin Population. aug: au: Tong, Elisa Saito, Naomi Tancredi, Daniel J. Borges, Guilherme Kravitz, Richard L. Hinton, Ladson Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio Elena Medina-Mora, Maria Breslau, Joshua su: Mexico United States Immigrants Smoking Behavior modification Epidemiology Families Surveys Birthplaces Chi-squared test Cluster analysis (Statistics) Comparative studies Confidence intervals Research funding Data analysis Secondary analysis Descriptive statistics sug: subj: Immigrants Smoking Behavior modification Epidemiology Families Mexico United States Surveys Birthplaces Chi-squared test Cluster analysis (Statistics) Comparative studies Confidence intervals Research funding Data analysis Secondary analysis Descriptive statistics ab: Objectives. We examined migration-related changes in smoking behavior in the transnational Mexican-origin population. Methods. We combined epidemiological surveys from Mexico (Mexican National Comorbidity Survey) and the United States (Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys). We compared 4 groups with increasing US contact with respect to smoking initiation, persistence, and daily cigarette consumption: Mexicans with no migrant in their family, Mexicans with a migrant in their family or previous migration experience, migrants, and US-born Mexican Americans. Results. Compared with Mexicans with a migrant in their family or previous migration experience, migrants were less likely to initiate smoking (odds ratio [OR] = 0.56; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.38, 0.83) and less likely to be persistent smokers (OR = 0.41; 95% CI = 0.26, 0.63). Among daily smokers, the US-born smoked more cigarettes per day than did Mexicans with a migrant in their family or previous migration experience for men (7.8 vs 6.5) and women (8.6 vs 4.3). Conclusions. Evidence suggests that smoking is suppressed among migrants relative to the broader transnational Mexican-origin population. The pattern of low daily cigarette consumption among US-born Mexican Americans, noted in previous research, represents an increase relative to smokers in Mexico. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Journal Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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