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| Maartje M SchaapSummaryAffiliation: Erasmus MC Country: The Netherlands Publications
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Identification of socioeconomic groups at increased risk for smoking in European countries: looking beyond educational levelMaartje M Schaap
Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Nicotine Tob Res 10:359-69. 2008..These measures should be used in addition to educational level to identify groups at increased risk for smoking...
Effect of nationwide tobacco control policies on smoking cessation in high and low educated groups in 18 European countriesM M Schaap
Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Centre, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tob Control 17:248-55. 2008..Our study used this scale to examine the potential impact of these policies on quit ratios in European countries. Special attention was given to smoking cessation among lower educational groups...
Monitoring of socio-economic inequalities in smoking: learning from the experiences of recent scientific studiesM M Schaap
Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, P O Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Public Health 123:103-9. 2009..This paper aims to review the methods applied in recent scientific studies on inequalities in smoking, with the aim of drawing lessons for the monitoring of smoking inequalities...
Female ever-smoking, education, emancipation and economic development in 19 European countriesMaartje M Schaap
Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Soc Sci Med 68:1271-8. 2009..The results are consistent with the idea that economic development and social-cultural processes related to gender empowerment have affected the diffusion of smoking in different ways for more and less educated women...
Socioeconomic inequalities in health in 22 European countriesJohan P Mackenbach
Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
N Engl J Med 358:2468-81. 2008..Comparisons among countries can help to identify opportunities for the reduction of inequalities in health. We compared the magnitude of inequalities in mortality and self-assessed health among 22 countries in all parts of Europe...
