Prevalence and correlates of early smoking among elementary schoolchildren in multiethnic, low-income inner-city neighborhoods

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 308-318

  O'Loughlin, Jennifer ^a,b,c   Renaud, Lise ^a,c,d   Paradis, Gilles ^a,b   Meshefedjian, Garbis ^a   Zhou, Xiaojie ^c  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Montreal Ctr for Studs on Hlth P   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Child; Correlates; Cross sectional Study; Health surveys; Prevalence; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0032127016     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1047-2797(97)00209-3     Document Type: Article

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