Is workplace smoking policy equally prevalent and equally effective among immigrants?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 784-791

  Osypuk, T L ^a   Subramanian, S V ^b   Kawachi, I ^b   Acevedo Garcia, D ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; HEALTH POLICY; IMMIGRANT; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLICY APPROACH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; WORKPLACE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; MALE; OCCUPATION; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; SMOKING; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 70349437227     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2008.079475     Document Type: Article

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