Urban-rural disparities in smoking behaviour in Germany

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Völzke, Henry ^a   Neuhauser, Hanne ^b   Moebus, Susanne ^c   Baumert, Jens ^d   Berger, Klaus ^e   Stang, Andreas ^f   Ellert, Ute ^b   Werner, André ^a   Döring, Angela ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^f MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; URBAN AREA; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK-TAKING; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33746316525     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-146     Document Type: Article

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