Social determinants of smoking in low- and middle-income countries: Results from the world health survey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Hosseinpoor, Ahmad Reza ^a   Parker, Lucy Anne ^b,c   Tursan d'Espaignet, Edouard ^a   Chatterji, Somnath ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MIDDLE INCOME GROUP; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ECONOMICS; HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957798756     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020331     Document Type: Article

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