Community-based navigators for tobacco cessation treatment: A proof-of-concept pilot study among low-income smokers

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Levinson, Arnold H ^a,b   Valverde, Patricia ^a   Garrett, Kathleen ^a   Kimminau, Michele ^b   Burns, Emily K ^c   Albright, Karen ^a   Flynn, Debra ^d  

^a Global Health and Health Disparities   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c Mercy Regional Medical Center   (United States)

^d Head Start   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PILOT STUDY; POVERTY; PROCEDURES; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOBACCO; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PILOT PROJECTS; POVERTY; TOBACCO; TOBACCO USE CESSATION; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84936746620     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-1962-4     Document Type: Article

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