Preventive medicine
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The purpose of this study was to estimate the extent of and to identify predictors of preadolescent gun use in a well child cohort with matched parent and child data. ⋯ In this well child cohort, significant numbers of preadolescent, healthy boys in white, middle-class U.S. homes have access to guns, are using guns, and have friends who use guns. These children are also early alcohol adopters. Safety interventions with parents of preadolescents about the risks for accidental injury, death, and suicide due to child gun use may prove beneficial.
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Preventive medicine · Mar 2001
Comparative StudySmoking initiation and cessation by gender and educational level in Catalonia, Spain.
The role of gender and socioeconomic status in smoking has been characterized in the United States and Northern European countries. However, there is scarce information of the dynamic of the tobacco epidemic in Southern European countries. The aim of this study was to analyze smoking initiation and cessation according to level of education and gender in Catalonia, Spain. ⋯ The differential effect of education according to gender may reflect different phases of the smoking epidemic. In Catalonia, the transition of smoking from upper and lower socioeconomic groups occurred recently among men, and women have currently begun to experience this transition.