Healthy and unhealthy assimilation: Country of origin and smoking behavior among immigrants

Health Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1411-1429

  Leung, Leigh Ann ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cigarette smoking; cigarette taxes; health assimilation; peer influence; private workplace smoking restrictions

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEER PRESSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SMOKING BAN; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL NORM; TAX; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE; AGED; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TAXES; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84927692607     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.2992     Document Type: Article

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