Second-hand smoke exposure and household smoking bans in Chinese families: A qualitative study

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 356-364

  Abdullah, Abu S ^a,b,c,d   Hua, Fu ^c   Xia, Xiao ^c   Hurlburt, Sarah ^d   Ng, Patrick ^d   MacLeod, William ^d   Siegel, Michael ^d   Griffiths, Sian ^e   Zhang, Zhiyong ^a  

^a GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Children; Community health worker; Household; Second hand smoke; Tobacco control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861859083     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: 13652524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2011.01035.x     Document Type: Article

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