Brady Joanne E, Weitzman Beth C
Principal Research Associate, National Development Research Institute, 71 West 23rd Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10010, USA.
Health Place. 2007 Jun;13(2):562-8. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2006.05.001. Epub 2006 Jul 12.
We find that estimates of the prevalence of teenage smoking and drinking in "urban," "suburban," and "rural" areas vary with different definitions of these types of geographic units. Given the salience of youth risk behavior to the public debate, we urge researchers to purposefully choose their definitions of geographic areas and to be explicit about those choices.
我们发现，“城市”“郊区”和“农村”地区青少年吸烟和饮酒患病率的估计值会因这些地理区域类型的不同定义而有所差异。鉴于青少年风险行为在公众辩论中的重要性，我们敦促研究人员有目的地选择他们对地理区域的定义，并明确说明这些选择。
