Blumenthal Daniel S
Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, 720 Westview Dr. SW, Atlanta, GA, 30310, USA.
Isr J Health Policy Res. 2017 Oct 2;6(1):51. doi: 10.1186/s13584-017-0177-9.
An article in this journal in 2016 demonstrated that smoking prevalence among Arab men in Israel is greater than among their Jewish counterparts born in Israel, while the reverse is true among Arab and Jewish Israeli women. This is reflected in lung cancer mortality rates. In the U.S., smoking prevalence in the mid-1960s was 20% higher in African American men than in white men, but has since decreased in both groups, and smoking prevalence in the two groups is now nearly identical. The black-white disparity in lung cancer mortality rates has been reduced by more than half as compared to its zenith in the early 1990s. The strategies employed to achieve these gains will continue to be important going forward, and successful strategies employed in Israel in addressing smoking in the male Arab population will be of increasing interest in the U.S. as its Arab population increases.
该期刊2016年发表的一篇文章表明，以色列阿拉伯男性的吸烟率高于在以色列出生的犹太男性，而在以色列阿拉伯女性和犹太女性中情况则相反。这反映在肺癌死亡率上。在美国，20世纪60年代中期，非裔美国男性的吸烟率比白人男性高20%，但此后两组的吸烟率都有所下降，现在两组的吸烟率几乎相同。与20世纪90年代初的峰值相比，肺癌死亡率方面的黑白差距已缩小了一半以上。实现这些成果所采用的策略在未来仍将很重要，随着美国阿拉伯人口的增加，以色列在解决阿拉伯男性吸烟问题上采用的成功策略将越来越受到美国的关注。
