Education tracking and adolescent smoking: a counterfactual and prospective cohort study.
Background and Aims: Adolescent smoking is a health issue and a potential health inequality issue. Education tracking, which is the placement of students into different school types and curricula based on their learning needs or abilities, is an indicator of inequality and risk factor of adolescent...
| Publicado en: | Addiction Vol. 116; no. 7; pp. 1871 - 1882 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul2021
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