The Global Youth Tobacco Survey - 2007: Comparison with the global youth tobacco survey 2001-2002 in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1036-1043

  Al Bedah, Abdullah M ^a   Qureshi, Naseem A ^b   Al Guhaimani, Hani I ^e   Basahi, Jamal A ^c,d  

^a Eastern Mediterranean Regional Oice   (Egypt)

^b Eastern Mediterranean Regional Oice   (Egypt)

^c Eastern Mediterranean Regional Oice   (Egypt)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^e Eastern Mediterranean Regional Oice   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; FEMALE; GLOBAL YOUTH TOBACCO SURVEY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JUVENILE; MALE; SAUDI ARABIA; TOBACCO;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; SAUDI ARABIA; SCHOOLS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 77958459815     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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