The Cost-effectiveness of Counseling Smokers to Quit

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 261, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 75-79

  Cummings, Steven R ^a   Rubin, Susan M ^a   Oster, Gerry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b POLICY ANALYSIS INC PAI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COUNSELING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING CESSATION;

ADULT; AGED; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COUNSELING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; OFFICE VISITS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; SMOKING; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0024490524     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1989.03420010085038     Document Type: Article

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