Effect of country-of-origin contextual factors and length of stay on immigrants' substance use in Spain

Factors explaining disparities in risk of substance use between immigrants and natives and between immigrant subgroups are poorly understood. We aimed to describe such disparities and identify some explanatory factors in Spain. Participants were residents aged 15-64 years from 2005 to 07 nationally...

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Published in:European journal of public health 2015-12, Vol.25 (6), p.930-936
Main Authors: Sordo, L, Indave, B I, Vallejo, F, Belza, M J, Sanz-Barbero, B, Rosales-Statkus, M, Fernández-Balbuena, S, Barrio, G
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Alcohol
Alcoholism - ethnology
Cannabis
Convergence
Divergence
Drug use
Effects
Emigrants and Immigrants - statistics & numerical data
Female
Health Status Disparities
Humans
Hypnotics
Immigrants
Immigration
Income
Indigenous peoples
Islam
Male
Marijuana
Middle Aged
Noncitizens
Poisson density functions
Poisson Distribution
Prevalence
Public health
Residents
Risk
Risk Factors
Robustness (mathematics)
Smoking
Smoking - ethnology
Sociocultural factors
Spain - epidemiology
Statistical analysis
Street Drugs
Subgroups
Substance use
Substance-Related Disorders - ethnology
Time Factors
Tobacco
Variables
Young Adult
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Summary:Factors explaining disparities in risk of substance use between immigrants and natives and between immigrant subgroups are poorly understood. We aimed to describe such disparities and identify some explanatory factors in Spain. Participants were residents aged 15-64 years from 2005 to 07 nationally representative surveys. Outcomes were prevalences of alcohol, tobacco, sedative-hypnotics, cannabis and other illegal substance use. Immigrants were recent if
ISSN:1101-1262
1464-360X
DOI:10.1093/eurpub/ckv144