Smoking habits of Greek preschool children's parents

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Vardavas, Constantine I ^a   Athanasopoulos, Dimitrios ^b   Balomenaki, Evaggelia ^b   Niaounaki, Dora ^c   Linardakis, Manolis K ^a   Kafatos, Anthony G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b Chania General Hospital   (Greece)

^c Chania Office of Primary Education   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KINDERGARTEN; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PARENT; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PEDIATRICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SMOKING HABIT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD WELFARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; INCIDENCE; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 34347398859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-112     Document Type: Article

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