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Prevalence of drug use, alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking and measure of socioeconomic-related inequalities of drug use among Iranian people: findings from a national survey
| العنوان: | Prevalence of drug use, alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking and measure of socioeconomic-related inequalities of drug use among Iranian people: findings from a national survey |
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| المؤلفون: | Mehdi Moradinazar, Farid Najafi, Farzad Jalilian, Yahya Pasdar, Behrooz Hamzeh, Ebraim Shakiba, Mohammad Hajizadeh, Ali Akbar Haghdoost, Reza Malekzadeh, Hossein Poustchi, Marzeyeh Nasiri, Hassan Okati-Aliabad, Majid Saeedi, Fariborz Mansour-Ghanaei, Sara Farhang, Ali Reza Safarpour, Najmeh Maharlouei, Mojtaba Farjam, Saeed Amini, Mahin Amini, Ali Mohammadi, Mehdi Mirzaei-Alavijeh |
| المصدر: | Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2020) |
| بيانات النشر: | BMC, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Public aspects of medicine LCC:Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Inequalities, Drug use, Socioeconomic status, Concentration index, Iran, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270, Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology, HV1-9960 |
| الوصف: | Abstract Background Drug use can lead to several psychological, medical and social complications. The current study aimed to measure and decomposes socioeconomic-related inequalities in drug use among adults in Iran. Methods This was a cross-sectional study The PERSIAN Cohort is the largest and most important cohort among 18 distinct areas of Iran. This study was conducted on 130,570 adults 35 years and older. A structured questionnaire was applied to collect data. The concentration index (C) was used to quantify and decompose socioeconomic inequalities in drug use. Results The prevalence experience of drug use was 11.9%. The estimated C for drug use was − 0.021. The corresponding value of the C for women and men were − 0.171 and − 0.134, respectively. The negative values of the C suggest that drug use is more concentrated among the population with low socioeconomic status in Iran (p |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1747-597X |
| Relation: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13011-020-00279-1; https://doaj.org/toc/1747-597X |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s13011-020-00279-1 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/924caf45c68943b6b4daeb6a99c22126 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.924caf45c68943b6b4daeb6a99c22126 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 1747597X |
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| DOI: | 10.1186/s13011-020-00279-1 |