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    • Social correlates of cigarette smoking among Icelandic adolescents : a population-based cross-sectional study 

      Kristjansson, Álfgeir L; Sigfusdottir, Inga D; Allegrante, John P; Helgason, Asgeir R (Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2012-08-22)
      BACKGROUND: Previous research has shown that between 80 and 90 percent of adult smokers report having started smoking before 18 years of age. Several studies have revealed that multiple social factors influence the likelihood ...

    • Symptoms in smokers trying to quit 

      Tomson, Tanja; Toftgård, Mats; Gilljam, Hans; Helgason, Asgeir R (Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2012-08-22)
      AIMS: To describe the prevalence and intensity of different symptoms in relation to tobacco abstinence. To explore latent dimensions between symptoms in smokers trying to quit. DESIGN: A cross sectional study using ...

    • Are non-responders in a quitline evaluation more likely to be smokers? 

      Tomson, Tanja; Björnström, Catrine; Gilljam, Hans; Helgason, Asgeir R (Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2012-08-22)
      BACKGROUND: In evaluation of smoking cessation programs including surveys and clinical trials the tradition has been to treat non-responders as smokers. The aim of this paper is to assess smoking behaviour of non-responders ...

    • Regional differences in health status in China : population health-related quality of life results from the National Health Services Survey 2008 

      Sun, Sun; Chen, Jiaying; Johannesson, Magnus; Kind, Paul; Xu, Ling; Zhang, Yaoguang; Burström, Kristina (Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2011-10-19)
      Purpose: to measure, describe and analyse regional differences in health-related quality of life measured by EQ-5D in China. Data were obtained via face-to-face interviews on a national representative sample (n=120,703, ...

    • Population health status in China : EQ-5D results, by age, sex and socio-economic status, from the National Health Services Survey 2008 

      Sun, Sun; Chen, Jiaying; Johannesson, Magnus; Kind, Paul; Xu, Ling; Zhang, Yaoguang; Burström, Kristina (Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2011-06-22)
      Purpose: To measure and analyse national EQ-5D data and to provide norms for the Chinese general population by age, sex, educational level, income and employment status. Methods: The EQ-5D instrument was included ...