Tobacco control policies specified according to socioeconomic status: Health disparities and cost-effectiveness

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 725-732

  Over, Eelco A B ^a   Feenstra, Talitha L ^a,b   Hoogenveen, Rudolf T ^a   Droomers, Mariël ^c   Uiters, Ellen ^a   Van gelder, Boukje M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; REIMBURSEMENT; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL STATUS; TAX; ADULT; AGED; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL CONTROL; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH, REIMBURSEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL; TAXES;

EID: 84900036056     PISSN: 14622203     EISSN: 1469994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntt218     Document Type: Article

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