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Article: Smoking, respiratory disease and health service utilisation: The paradox
Title | Smoking, respiratory disease and health service utilisation: The paradox |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Health services Hong Kong Need and demand Smoking |
Issue Date | 2005 |
Publisher | Pergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/socscimed |
Citation | Social Science And Medicine, 2005, v. 60 n. 3, p. 483-490 How to Cite? |
Abstract | We compared need for and utilisation of health services among young, healthy smokers who did not want to quit "the non-motivated", and "motivated smokers", relative to never-smokers. This cross-sectional study included 9915 Hong Kong police officers. We assessed smoking status, differentiating non-motivated from motivated smokers. Need was measured as the number of respiratory symptoms, and utilisation as the number of doctor consultations. All smokers had significantly more respiratory symptoms, but relatively lower utilisation. After adjusting for other factors, the odds ratio for utilisation was 0.77 (95% CI 0.64-0.93) for motivated smokers and 0.62 (95% CI 0.50-0.77) for non-motivated, relative to never-smokers (p for trend<0.001). Young, relatively healthy smokers, particularly the non-motivated, utilise less health services relative to the amount of symptoms. This has implications for planning smoking cessation services. © 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/48556 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 4.9 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.954 |
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dc.contributor.author | Adab, P | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | McGhee, SM | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Hedley, AJ | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Lam, TH | en_HK |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-05-22T04:17:03Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2008-05-22T04:17:03Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2005 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.citation | Social Science And Medicine, 2005, v. 60 n. 3, p. 483-490 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issn | 0277-9536 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/48556 | - |
dc.description.abstract | We compared need for and utilisation of health services among young, healthy smokers who did not want to quit "the non-motivated", and "motivated smokers", relative to never-smokers. This cross-sectional study included 9915 Hong Kong police officers. We assessed smoking status, differentiating non-motivated from motivated smokers. Need was measured as the number of respiratory symptoms, and utilisation as the number of doctor consultations. All smokers had significantly more respiratory symptoms, but relatively lower utilisation. After adjusting for other factors, the odds ratio for utilisation was 0.77 (95% CI 0.64-0.93) for motivated smokers and 0.62 (95% CI 0.50-0.77) for non-motivated, relative to never-smokers (p for trend<0.001). Young, relatively healthy smokers, particularly the non-motivated, utilise less health services relative to the amount of symptoms. This has implications for planning smoking cessation services. © 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. | en_HK |
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dc.language | eng | en_HK |
dc.publisher | Pergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/socscimed | en_HK |
dc.relation.ispartof | Social Science and Medicine | en_HK |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | Health services | en_HK |
dc.subject | Hong Kong | en_HK |
dc.subject | Need and demand | en_HK |
dc.subject | Smoking | en_HK |
dc.title | Smoking, respiratory disease and health service utilisation: The paradox | en_HK |
dc.type | Article | en_HK |
dc.identifier.openurl | http://library.hku.hk:4550/resserv?sid=HKU:IR&issn=0277-9536&volume=60&issue=3&spage=483&epage=490&date=2005&atitle=Smoking,+respiratory+disease+and+health+service+utilisation:+The+paradox | en_HK |
dc.identifier.email | McGhee, SM:smmcghee@hkucc.hku.hk | en_HK |
dc.identifier.email | Hedley, AJ:hrmrajh@hkucc.hku.hk | en_HK |
dc.identifier.email | Lam, TH:hrmrlth@hkucc.hku.hk | en_HK |
dc.identifier.authority | McGhee, SM=rp00393 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.authority | Hedley, AJ=rp00357 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.authority | Lam, TH=rp00326 | en_HK |
dc.description.nature | postprint | en_HK |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.06.001 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.pmid | 15550297 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-8644254939 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 96819 | - |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-8644254939&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_HK |
dc.identifier.volume | 60 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issue | 3 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.spage | 483 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.epage | 490 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000226404000004 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Adab, P=6601949045 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | McGhee, SM=7003288588 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Hedley, AJ=7102584095 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Lam, TH=7202522876 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0277-9536 | - |