Adapting smoking cessation programming to the Bulgarian context

Evaluation and the Health Professions

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 290-296

  Andreeva, Valentina A ^a   Sakuma, Kari Lyn Kobayakawa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulgaria; Eastern Europe; Health promotion; Smoking cessation

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BULGARIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL MARKETING;

BULGARIA; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL MARKETING;

EID: 47849127396     PISSN: 01632787     EISSN: 15523918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163278708320149     Document Type: Review

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