Engendering tobacco control: Using an international public health treaty to reduce smoking and empower women

Tobacco Control

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 148-150

  Greaves, Lorraine ^a,b   Tungohan, Ethel ^a  

^a British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health   (Canada)

^b Children's and Women's Hospitals of British Columbia   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MARKETING; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; MARKETING; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PREGNANCY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

EID: 34347205655     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2006.016337     Document Type: Note

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