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The formation of a socioeconomic health disparity: the case of cocaine use during the 1980s and 1990s (2008)
(La formation d'une disparité socioéconomique de santé : le cas de l'usage de cocaïne dans les années 1980 et 1990.)
Auteur(s) :
MIECH, R.
Année :
2008
Page(s) :
352-366
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology)
Thésaurus mots-clés
CATEGORIE SOCIO-PROFESSIONNELLE
;
EVOLUTION
;
INEGALITE
;
COCAINE
;
COHORTE
;
CONSOMMATION
;
TRAJECTOIRE
;
THEORIE
;
ETUDE LONGITUDINALE
;
SANTE
Thésaurus géographique
ETATS-UNIS
Note générale :
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2008, 49, (3), 352-366
Résumé :
ENGLISH :
Despite the substantial and prolonged sociological interest in health disparities, much remains unknown about the processes that initiate them. To investigate this topic, we focus on the case study of cocaine use, for which a socioeconomic disparity emerged across all age groups in a short period of time around 1990. We examine whether the newly-formed disparity represents a selective remnant of previous users or, instead, a selective recruitment of new users. To evaluate these two potential processes we use latent class regression on a nationally representative cohort with repeated measures of past-year cocaine use before and after 1990. Results support the "remnant" hypothesis and show that the newly-formed disparity resulted primarily because people in the lower social strata were less likely to have a trajectory of cocaine use with a sharp drop in use after 1990. These results point to the "remnant" concept as a way to bring together disparity analysis of very different and diverse health outcomes. (Author' s abstract)
Affiliation :
University of Colorado Denver, Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences, Denver, CO 80217-3364. Email : rmiech@gmail.com
Etats-Unis. United States.
Etats-Unis. United States.
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