Linking Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) Data to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC): The Case for the Seychelles

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL.1, 2008, Pages

  Viswanathan, Bharathi ^a   Warren, Charles W ^b   Jones, Nathan R ^b   Asma, Samira ^b   Bovet, Pascal ^a,c  

^a Ministry of Health and Social Development   (Seychelles)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Africa; Policy; Seychelles; Surveillance; Tobacco control; Tobacco use

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT SMOKING; ADVERTIZING; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; POPULATION RISK; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEYCHELLES; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SEYCHELLES; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STUDENTS; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 51849107499     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2008.02.008     Document Type: Article

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