Social marketing campaigns for youth gambling prevention: Lessons learned from youth

International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 294-306

  Messerlian, Carmen ^a   Derevensky, Jeffrey ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Gambling; Media; Prevention; Social marketing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845343266     PISSN: 15571874     EISSN: 15571882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11469-006-9032-x     Document Type: Article

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