Smoking Trends among U.S. Latinos, 1998-2013: The Impact of Immigrant Arrival Cohort.

ABSTRACT: Few studies examine nativity disparities in smoking in the U.S., thus a major gap remains in understanding whether immigrant Latinos' smoking prevalence is stable, converging, or diverging, compared with U.S.-born Latinos. This study aimed to disentangle the roles of period changes, duration of U.S. residence, and immigrant arrival cohort in explaining the gap in smoking prevalence between foreign-born and U.S.-born Latinos. Using repeated cross-sectional data spanning 1998-2013 (U.S. National Health Interview Survey), regressions predicted current smoking among foreign-born and U.S.-born Latino men and women (n = 12,492). We contrasted findings from conventional regression analyses that simply include period and duration of residence effects, to two methods of assessing arrival cohort eff

SUBMITTER: Bostean G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5369091 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature