Smoking among rural and urban young women in China

Tobacco Control

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-18

  Ho, Michael G ^a   Ma, Shaojun ^b   Chai, Wanxing ^b   Xia, Wan ^b   Yang, Gonghuan ^c   Novotny, Thomas E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SELF CONCEPT; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; CHINA; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SELF EFFICACY; SMOKING; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77049083136     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2009.030981     Document Type: Article

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