Tobacco smoking trends in Samoa over four decades: can continued globalization rectify that which it has wrought?
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Tobacco smoking trends in Samoa over four decades: can continued globalization rectify that which it has wrought?
BACKGROUND The island country of Samoa (population 188,000 in 2011) forms part of Polynesia in the South Pacific. Over the past several decades Samoa has experienced exceptional modernization and globalization of many sectors of society, with noncommunicable diseases (NCD) now the leading cause of morbidity and mortality. The evolution of risk factor prevalence underpinning the increase in NCDs...
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عنوان ژورنال: Globalization and Health
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1744-8603
DOI: 10.1186/s12992-017-0256-2