Smoking in immigrants: Do socioeconomic gradients follow the pattern expected from the tobacco epidemic?

Tobacco Control

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 385-391

  Nierkens, Vera ^a   De Vries, Hein ^b   Stronks, Karien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MOROCCO; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SURINAME; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURINAME; TURKEY;

EID: 33748572736     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2006.014902     Document Type: Article

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