Mixed messages: A qualitative study of the meanings and context of high school students' tobacco use in Turkey

Health Promotion International

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 360-366

  Yuksel, Hulya ^a   Corbett, Kitty K ^b  

^a DUMLUPINAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Qualitative methods; Smoking; Turkey

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIGH SCHOOL; HOME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUVENILE; MALE; MILITARY SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHOOL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STUDENT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE; BRITISH COLUMBIA; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; SCHOOLS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; TURKEY;

EID: 27944474811     PISSN: 09574824     EISSN: 14602245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dai019     Document Type: Article

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