Smoking cessation interventions for ethnic minority groups - A systematic review of adapted interventions

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 765-775

  Liu, Jing Jing ^a   Wabnitz, Cecile ^a   Davidson, Emma ^a   Bhopal, Raj S ^a   White, Martin ^b   Johnson, Mark R D ^c   Netto, Gina ^d   Sheikh, Aziz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnic groups; Health education; Smoking; Smoking cessation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CHINESE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ETHNIC GROUP; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH EDUCATION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; MINORITY GROUPS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 84887822513     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2013.09.014     Document Type: Review

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