A Self-Help Smoking Cessation Program for Inner-City African Americans: Results from the Harlem Health Connection Project

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 201-217

  Resnicow, Ken ^a,j   Vaughan, Roger ^b   Futterman, Robert ^c   Weston, Raymond Eric ^d   Royce, Jacqueline ^e   Parms, Clifford ^f   Hearn, Marsha Davis ^g   Smith, Matt ^a   Freeman, Harold P ^h   Orlandi, Mario A ⁱ  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia Univ College of Physicians ^*  (United States)

^c NYLCare Health Plans Inc   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e Royce Associates   (United States)

^f Voyetra Technologies Inc   (United States)

^g GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h HARLEM HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ JOHNSON AND JOHNSON   (United States)

^j EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CARE; SMOKING CESSATION; TEACHING; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION; SELF CARE; SMOKING CESSATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0031115919     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/109019819702400208     Document Type: Article

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