Geospatial analysis on the distributions of tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking in India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tobacco smoking and binge alcohol drinking are two of the leading risk factors for premature mortality worldwide. In India, studies have examined the geographic distributions of tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking only at the state-level; sub-state variations and the spatial association between the two consumptions are poorly understood.

Methodology

We used data from the Special Fertility and Mortality Survey conducted in 1998 to examine the geographic distributions of tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking at the district and postal code levels. We used kriging interpolation to generate smoking and drinking distributions at the postal code level. We also examined spatial autocorrelations and identified spatial clusters of high and low prevalence of smoking and dri

SUBMITTER: Fu SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4099149 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature