Culturally Specific Tobacco Use and South Asians in the United States: A Review of the Literature and Promising Strategies for Intervention

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2013, Pages

  Mukherjea, Arnab ^a   Modayil, Mary V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b California Tobacco Control Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian; community assessment; health disparities; health promotion; minority health; program planning and evaluation; tobacco prevention and control

Indexed keywords

ASIAN; ASIAN AMERICAN; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONSUMER; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MINORITY HEALTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM PLANNING AND EVALUATION; REVIEW; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SMOKING; TOBACCO PREVENTION AND CONTROL; UNITED STATES; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ASIAN; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; HEALTH DISPARITIES; HEALTH PROMOTION; MINORITY HEALTH; PROGRAM PLANNING AND EVALUATION; TOBACCO PREVENTION AND CONTROL;

ASIAN AMERICANS; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; SMOKING; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84890951841     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: 15526372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839913485585     Document Type: Article

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