Personal attitudes towards smoking in a national sample of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smokers and recent quitters

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 202, Issue 10, 2015, Pages S51-S56

  Nicholson, Anna K ^a   Borland, Ron ^b   Bennet, Pele T ^c   van der Sterren, Anke E ^d   Stevens, Matthew ^a   Thomas, David P ^a  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^c Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAMPLING STUDIES; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930146278     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja14.01535     Document Type: Article

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