Promising Practices to Eliminate Tobacco Disparities Among Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2013, Pages

  Lew, Rod ^a   Chen, W William ^b  

^a Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment Advocacy and Leadership   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

advocacy; health disparities; tobacco prevention and control

Indexed keywords

ASIAN AMERICAN; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; ABORIGINE; ADVOCACY; EDITORIAL; METHODOLOGY; TOBACCO PREVENTION AND CONTROL;

ASIAN AMERICANS; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

ADVOCACY; HEALTH DISPARITIES; TOBACCO PREVENTION AND CONTROL;

EID: 84890949459     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: 15526372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839913497717     Document Type: Editorial

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