Prevalence and Socioeconomic Determinants of Tobacco Consumption Patterns across Urban and Rural Settings in Cameroon

• 作者: AltinéFadimatou Nadia Ampoulia Biwouele Bwemba Zakariaou Njoumemi
• 来源期刊: 美中医学:英文版
• 学科: 农学
• 关键词: PREVALENCE SOCIOECONOMIC tobacco consumption determinants gender URBAN RURAL Cameroon.D DAVID PUBLISHING
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（4）
• 页码范围: 154-171
• 页数: 18页
• 分类号: S57

摘要

Background:Tobacco consumption is an established risk factor for non-communicable diseases(NCDs).Tobacco consumption also increases the risk of suffering from serious symptoms due to COVID-19 illness.Controlling tobacco consumption is one of the“best buys”to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases(NCDs)and COVID-19 in the world where tobacco is the single most preventable cause of death.By the year 2030,it is projected that some 70%of tobacco deaths will be in low-income and middle-income countries.Like other African countries,Cameroon faces the greatest threat in terms of future growth in the consumption of both smoking and smokeless tobacco.This study aims at determining the prevalence ratios,the geographical distribution and the socioeconomic determinants of smoking and smokeless tobacco consumption by gender in Cameroon.Methods:This study uses secondary data of 2011 Cameroon Demographic and Health Survey to analyze both smoking tobacco and smokeless tobacco consumption,stratified by gender and residence(urban/rural).Variables were extracted on tobacco among households and individuals using STATA-15 and Microsoft Excel 2016.Multivariate logistic regression models were conducted to evaluate the relationship between gender-based tobacco consumption and residence(urban/rural),age,marital status,education,wealth quintile,and ethnic group.Results:A total number of 22,617 responses on tobacco consumption were recorded,50.4%from urban settlement and 68.2%of females.Mean age of tobacco consumption was 29.8 years.Overall,the prevalence of smoking tobacco was 5.3%,with higher prevalence in rural settlement(3.1%)and among males(15.3%)than in urban settlement(2.1%)and among females(0.5%);while the prevalence of smokeless tobacco was 1.3%,with 0.9%in rural settlement and 2.7%for males,and 0.3%in urban settlement and 0.6%for females.However,the analysis stratified by residence shows that tobacco is almost exclusively consumed by large proportions of men in both urban(12.23%for smoking tobacco and 1.52%for smokele