Mobilizing for policy: Using community-based participatory research to impose minimum packaging requirements on small cigars

Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 205-212

  Milam, Adam J ^a   Bone, Lee ^a   Furr Holden, Debra ^a   Coylewright, Megan ^b   Dachille, Kathleen ^c   Owings, Kerry ^d   Clay, Eric ^d   Holmes, William ^d   Lambropoulos, Soula ^e   Stillman, Frances ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF LAW   (United States)

^d Youth Opportunity (YO) Baltimore   (United States)

^e BALTIMORE CITY HEALTH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

African americans; Communityacademic partnerships; Policy; Tobacco; Young adults

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MANAGEMENT; PACKAGING; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; SMOKING;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MALE; POLICY MAKING; PRODUCT PACKAGING; SMOKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873043462     PISSN: 15570541     EISSN: 1557055X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cpr.2012.0027     Document Type: Article

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