Smoking has declined but not for all: Findings from a study in a rural area of Bangladesh

Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 662-671

  Hanifi, S M A ^a   Mahmood, S S ^a   Bhuiya, A ^a  

^a ICDDRB Public Health Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Chakaria; health education; health promotion; INDEPTH; inequalities in health; smoking tobacco drug abuse

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BANGLADESH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053927577     PISSN: 10105395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1010539509351051     Document Type: Review

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