Smoking cessation practice and research in China: What's history and culture got to do with it?

Respirology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 741-743

  Dean, Elizabeth ^a   Bodner, Michael ^b   Al Bannay, Hana ^b   Li, Zhenyi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ROYAL ROADS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

China; culture; health belief; historical perspective; smoking

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDITORIAL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO;

AWARENESS; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 84879390963     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/resp.12105     Document Type: Editorial

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