Tobacco and Health Disparities
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چکیده
1Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK 2Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London W6 8RP, UK 3Academic Unit of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK 4Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 4502 E. 41st Street, SAC 1G06, Tulsa, OK 74135, USA 5Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, The Aga Khan University, Karachi 74800, Pakistan
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
دوره 2015 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015