Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST rCR0xZju. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Objectives. This study assessed the relanonship between careinal risks, such at personal and neighborhood danger, and smoking by using a new therapical framework. based on compering mortality risk models. Methods. Regression analyses of self-reported data from restdents of Contral Harlem, New York, surveyed from 1992 through 1999 (n=695, response rate=72%) were used in assess 2 mensures of external health threats : levels of neighborhood danger and lifetime trauma. Results. Support for the framework was mixed. At the 95% confidence level, exposure to lifetime trauma was positively related to current smoking states but was but related to the number of cigarettes smoked, conditional on being a smoker. Living in a "somewhat unsafe neighborhood was also statistically significantly related to current smoking status. Conclusions. Although the framework implies that policies directed at improving the physical and survial environment might improve health through their indirect effects on behaviors, little supporting evidence was found. Smoking rates may decrease if exposure to violence and neighborhood danger is reduced. This famework needs to be tested on target and more information-riche rich data sets.
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