Investigating the relation between placement of Quit antismoking advertisements and number of telephone calls to Quitline: A semiparametric modelling approach

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 180-182

  Erbas, Bircan ^a   Bui, Quang ^b   Huggins, Richard ^b   Harper, Todd ^c   White, Victoria ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISING; HEALTH EDUCATION; SMOKING;

ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARAMETER; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING CESSATION; TELEPHONE;

ADULT; ADVERTISING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOTLINES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TELEVISION; TOBACCO USE CESSATION; VICTORIA;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 31144457247     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2005.038109     Document Type: Article

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