People, places, and adolescent substance use: Integrating activity space and social network data for analyzing health behavior

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 272-291

  Mennis, Jeremy ^a   Mason, Michael J ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity space; Drug abuse; Social network; Substance use; Tobit

Indexed keywords

CRIME; SOCIAL NETWORK; VIOLENCE;

EID: 79952394029     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2010.534712     Document Type: Article

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