Smoking-related knowledge and health risk beliefs in a national sample of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 202, Issue 10, 2015, Pages S45-S50

  Nicholson, Anna K ^a   Borland, Ron ^b   Couzos, Sophia ^c   Stevens, Matthew ^a   Thomas, David P ^a  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINE; COMMUNITY CARE; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LUNG CANCER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PASSIVE SMOKING; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; YOUNG ADULT;

PASSIVE SMOKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASTHMA; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLING STUDIES; SMOKING; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930145067     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja14.00877     Document Type: Article

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