Great inclination to smoke among younger adults coming from low-socioeconomic class in Thailand

International Archives of Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Mekrungrongwong, Sunsanee ^a   Nakamura, Keiko ^a   Kizuki, Masashi ^a   Morita, Ayako ^a   Somkotra, Tewarit ^b   Seino, Kaoruko ^a   Takano, Takehito ^b  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

health promotion; inequity in health; smoking habit; Social gradient in health; socioeconomic factors; Thailand

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MARRIAGE; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SOCIAL CLASS; THAILAND;

EID: 80052024582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17557682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1755-7682-4-29     Document Type: Review

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