Monitoring the tobacco use epidemic III. The host: data sources and methodological challenges

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 1 SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Delnevo, Cristine D ^a   Bauer, Ursula E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b New York State Department of Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Surveillance; Survey; Tobacco control

Indexed keywords

MENTHOL;

CIGARETTE SMOKING; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MOBILE PHONE; MONITORING; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EDUCATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58649092945     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2008.09.008     Document Type: Review

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