Leung Leigh Ann
Brown University, School of Public Health, Providence, RI, USA.
Health Econ. 2014 Dec;23(12):1411-29. doi: 10.1002/hec.2992. Epub 2013 Sep 9.
Smoking rates in the country of origin were used to empirically examine whether immigrants converge toward natives' level of smoking prevalence with assimilation. Results show that assimilation is associated with a lower likelihood of ever quitting smoking for immigrants from countries with lower smoking rates relative to the USA and a higher likelihood for immigrants from countries with higher smoking rates, but for current or ever smoking, the estimated effects of assimilation are statistically insignificant. Although these findings demonstrate that health assimilation depends on the country of origin, the extent to which this pattern of assimilation is due to peer influence, differences in responsiveness to anti-smoking interventions such as taxes or smoke-free air restrictions, and/or other factors remains unclear because of the limitations of this study.
利用移民来源国的吸烟率，通过实证研究移民是否会随着同化而趋向于当地居民的吸烟流行水平。结果显示，对于来自吸烟率低于美国的国家的移民，同化与戒烟可能性降低相关；对于来自吸烟率高于美国的国家的移民，同化与戒烟可能性增加相关，但对于当前吸烟或曾经吸烟的情况，同化的估计影响在统计上不显著。尽管这些发现表明健康同化取决于移民来源国，但由于本研究的局限性，这种同化模式在多大程度上是由于同伴影响、对税收或无烟空气限制等反吸烟干预措施的反应差异以及/或其他因素仍不清楚。
