Smoking and other correlates of health care services utilization among mandatory military recruits in Israel

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 742-750

  Levine, Hagai ^a,b   Huerta Hartal, Michael ^a,c   Bar Ze'ev, Yael ^a,d   Balicer, Ran D ^a,c   Auster, Oren ^a   Ankol, Omer E ^a,e   Chodick, Gabriel ^a,d  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MILITARY SERVICE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLDIER;

EID: 84861553732     PISSN: 14622203     EISSN: 1469994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ntr/nts016     Document Type: Article

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