Australia: Factors Associated With Antenatal Smoking Among Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Women In Two Jurisdictions

Australia: Factors Associated With Antenatal Smoking Among Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Women In Two Jurisdictions   Megan E. Passey, Catherine A. D'Este, Janelle M. Stirling, and Robert W. Sanson-Fisher, 2012   Introduction and Aims: Smoking rates are three times as high for pregnant Indigenous women relative to non-Indigenous women, in Australia. This paper describes Indigenous women's self-reported antenatal smoking behaviour and compares knowledge and attitudes of those...

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