Tobacco use and cessation counseling among health professional students • Lebanon global health professions student survey, 2005

Journal Medical Libanais

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 243-247

  Saade, Georges ^a   Warren, Charles W ^b   Jones, Nathan R ^b   Mokdad, Ali ^c  

^a LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^c CDCP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COUNSELING; DENTAL STUDENT; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LEBANON; MALE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; NURSING STUDENT; PHARMACY STUDENT; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LEBANON; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK-TAKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STUDENTS, DENTAL; STUDENTS, HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, NURSING; STUDENTS, PHARMACY; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; WORLD HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957912939     PISSN: 00239852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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