The Adoption of Smoking and Its Effect on the Mortality Gender Gap in Netherlands:A Historical Perspective
We examine in depth the effect of differences in the smoking adoption patterns of men and women on the mortality gender gap in Netherlands, employing a historical perspective. Using an indirect estimation technique based on observed lung cancer mortality from 1931 to 2012, we estimated lifetime smoking prevalence and smoking-attributable mortality. We decomposed the sex difference in life expectancy at birth into smoking-related and nonsmoking-related overall and cause-specific mortality. The smoking epidemic in Netherlands, which started among men born around 1850 and among women from birth c... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2015 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Janssen , F & van Poppel , F 2015 , ' The Adoption of Smoking and Its Effect on the Mortality Gender Gap in Netherlands : A Historical Perspective ' , Biomed Research International , vol. 2015 , pp. 370274 . https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/370274 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27210739 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/11370/aa45ea08-3a0a-4419-a953-41cae68b04a4 |