Knowledge and beliefs about genetics and smoking among visitors and staff at a health care facility

Public Health Nursing

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-87

  Houfek, Julia Fisco ^a   Atwood, Jan R ^a   Wolfe, Rhonda M ^b   Agrawal, Sangeeta ^a   Reiser, Gwendolyn M ^a   Schaefer, G Bradley ^a   Rennard, Stephen I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MinuteClinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Genetics; Knowledge; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 37249052871     PISSN: 07371209     EISSN: 15251446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1446.2008.00682.x     Document Type: Article

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