Prevalence of and factors associated with daily smoking among Inner Mongolia medical students in China: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey

Substance Abuse: Treatment, Prevention, and Policy

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bian, Jiang ^a   Du, Maolin ^a   Liu, Zhiyue ^a   Fan, Yancun ^a   Eshita, Yuki ^b   Sun, Juan ^a  

^a INNER MONGOLIA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavior; Daily smoking; Medical students; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84860998813     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1747597X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1747-597X-7-20     Document Type: Article

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