Hoogenboom, Tobi (2019) The contribution of lifestyle factors – smoking, obesity and alcohol – to state mortality differences in the United States. Master thesis.
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Abstract
Already in 1980 the American government introduced the Healthy People initiative for increasing the healthy lifespan of Americans by the aim to reduce and eventually eliminate health disparities. However, reasons for geographical health disparities across the United States are still not completely understood. By focusing on to what extent all-cause mortality differences are due to lifestyle factors – smoking, obesity and alcohol – in the United States, this thesis contributes to the debate on determinants of mortality and geographical mortality differences. This study showed smoking and obesity have a high contribution to all-cause mortality differences between states in the United States in 2016, whereas the contribution of alcohol is rather marginal. Therefore, the American government is advised to adjust smoking and obesity policy on a low level scale, whereas the alcohol policy suits a national approach to reduce health disparities as part of the Healthy People initiative.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Population Studies |
| Supervisor: | Janssen, Fanny |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Apr 2020 05:41 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Apr 2020 05:41 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2601 |
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