The role of labor organizations in tobacco control: What do unionized workers think?

American Journal of Health Promotion

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 182-186

  Mitchell, Rebecca J ^a   Weisman, Susan R ^b   Jones, Resa M ^c   Erickson, Darin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b William Mitchell College of Law   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health focus: smoking control; Labor unions; Manuscript format: research; Outcome measure: behavioral; Policy; Prevention research; Research purpose: descriptive; Setting: workplace; Smoking; Strategy: policy; Study design: nonexperimental; Target population circumstances: education income level; Target population: adults; Workplace

Indexed keywords

EID: 58449121921     PISSN: 08901171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4278/ajhp.07081083     Document Type: Article

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