Socioeconomic Inequality in Smoking in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries: Results from the World Health Survey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Hosseinpoor, Ahmad Reza ^a   Parker, Lucy Anne ^b,c   Tursan d'Espaignet, Edouard ^a   Chatterji, Somnath ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MIDDLE INCOME GROUP; NORMAL HUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMIC INEQUALITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POVERTY; RISK; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84865605434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042843     Document Type: Article

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