If nobody smoked tobacco in New Zealand from 2020 onwards, what effect would this have on ethnic inequalities in life expectancy?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 123, Issue 1320, 2010, Pages

  Blakely, Tony ^a   Carter, Kristie ^a   Wilson, Nick ^a   Edwards, Richard ^a   Woodward, Alistair ^b   Thomson, George ^a   Sarfati, Diana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MAORI; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; ABORIGINE; ETHNOLOGY; FORECASTING; LIFE TABLE; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS;

FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLES; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77955988826     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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