Ethnic differences in cancer risk behaviors through the transition out of high school

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 94-103

  Baranowski, Tom ^a   Koehly, Laura ^b   Cullen, Karen ^a   Prokhorov, Alexander ^a   Wetter, David ^a   Basen Engquist, Karen ^a   Anderson, Cheryl ^c   Hergenroeder, Al ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c Box 243 ^*

Author keywords

Alcohol; Cancer; Diet; Physical Activity; Sexual practices; Smokeless Tobacco; Smoking; Transition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; NEOPLASM; NUTRITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; NEOPLASMS; NUTRITION SURVEYS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK-TAKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033428395     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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