Improving the delivery of global tobacco control

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 382-393

  Bitton, Asaf ^a,b   Green, Carol ^a   Colbert, James ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Framework Convention on Tobacco Control; global health delivery; policy; South Africa; structural violence; tobacco control; tobacco industry; Uruguay

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; SOUTH AFRICA; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; URUGUAY; VIOLENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; POLITICS; PUBLIC POLICY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOUTH AFRICA; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 79956346516     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/msj.20252     Document Type: Article

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