Urban seventh graders and smoking: A health risk behavior assessment

Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 217-229

  Dowdell, Elizabeth Burgess ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHILADELPHIA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; URBAN HEALTH; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0036825137     PISSN: 01460862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01460860290042602     Document Type: Article

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