A Cross-sectional Analysis of Socio-spatial Patterning of Tobacco Retail in Shanghai, China.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

International evidence from high-income countries demonstrates that the availability of tobacco tends to be greater in more urban and more deprived neighborhoods. However, little is known about the socio-spatial disparities in other settings, including megacities in China. This study investigated the patterning of tobacco retailers across Shanghai by types of tobacco retailers, including the relationship with levels of urbanity and neighborhood deprivation.

Aims and methods

Tobacco retailer data (n = 19 413) was extracted from a web-scraped Points-of-Interest database. For all communities (n = 5432) across Shanghai, neighborhood tobacco retail availability was calculated using population-weighted kernel density estimation and grouped by quintiles of neighborhood

SUBMITTER: Zheng C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9653074 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature