Open AccessSpatiotemporal Analysis of Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline Registrations Using Geoimputation and Joinpoint Analysis
Author(s) -
Naci Dilekli,
Amanda E. Janitz,
Sydney A Martinez,
Sameer Vali Gopalani,
Tyler M. Dougherty,
Aaron M. Williams,
Hamed Zamani Sabzi,
Janis E. Campbell
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of public health management and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.771
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1550-5022
pISSN - 1078-4659
DOI - 10.1097/phh.0000000000000996
Subject(s) - helpline , confidence interval , demography , medicine , smoking cessation , population , epidemiology , descriptive statistics , public health , geography , environmental health , family medicine , nursing , emergency medicine , pathology , sociology , statistics , mathematics
Tobacco quitlines provide free smoking cessation telephone services to smokers interested in quitting tobacco. We aimed to explore spatial and temporal analyses of registrations to the Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline including those of any racial group and American Indians (AI) from January 1, 2006, to June 30, 2017. This will allow tribal and community organizations, such as the Oklahoma Tribal Epidemiology Center, to better implement and evaluate public health prevention efforts at a smaller geographic area using the larger geographic units that are publicly available.