Place-Based Inequity in Smoking Prevalence in the Largest Cities in the United States

JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Mar 1;179(3):442-444. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.5990.

Abstract

This study uses data from the 500 Cities Project to characterize inequities in cigarette smoking both between and within cities and their association with sociodemographic factors and chronic diseases.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
  • Chronic Disease / epidemiology
  • Cities
  • Humans
  • Prevalence
  • Smoking / epidemiology*
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • United States / epidemiology