Lifecourse influences on maternal smoking before pregnancy and postpartum among women from ethnic minority groups.
Background: Studies using a lifecourse framework to examine women's smoking behaviour have focused on samples of predominantly white women. We examined the contributions of conventional lifecourse factors and women's domestic trajectories to smoking behaviour before pregnancy and postpartum among wo...
| Published in: | European Journal of Public Health Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 339 - 346 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2010
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