School-related mediators in social inequalities in smoking: A comparative cross-sectional study of 20,399 adolescents

International Journal for Equity in Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Schnohr, Christina W ^a   Kreiner, Svend ^a   Rasmussen, Mette ^a   Due, Pernille ^b   Diderichsen, Finn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENMARK; EUROPE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISRAEL; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; NORWAY; PUBLIC FIGURE; SATISFACTION; SCHOOL; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SWEDEN; TEACHER; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 66749092108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14759276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-8-17     Document Type: Article

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