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Socioeconomic distribution of noncommunicable disease risk factors in urban Brazil: The case of Porto Alegre

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1993
Author
Duncan, Bruce B
Schmidt, Maria Inés
Achutti, Aloyzio C
Polanczyk, Carisi A
Benia, Luis Roberto
Maia, Alberto A. G
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Abstract
The study reported here sought to assess the degree to which the prevalences of five risk factors for noncommunicable diseases- hypertension, smoking, obesity, sedentary lifestyle, and excessive alcohol consumption- varied individually and in combination for urban Brazilians with differing socioeconomic status in terms of educational achievement, income, and social class. For this purpose 1986-1987 data from a cross-sectional household survey of 1 157 randomly selected adults 15-64 years of age residing in the major Brazilian city of Porto Alegre were analized. In general, it was found that less privileged socioeconomic situations tended to be associated with higher risk factor prevalences. However, this was not the case for obesity and sedentary lifestyle among men, and may not have been the case with respect to hypertension among women. When the effects of education, income, and social class were considered simultaneously, higher risk factor prevalences were most strongly associated with low educational attainment. Important exceptions to this rule were found for smoking among women and excessive alcohol consumption among men, where higher risk factor prevalences were most associated with social class. Once the effects of education and social class were accounted for, income generally tended to be associated with lower prevalences of the risk factors studied
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Bulletin of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO);27(4),1993
Subject
Chronic Disease; Risk Factors; Urban Health; Socioeconomic Factors; Brazil; Social Class; Education
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https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/26981
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