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ArticleAsia-Pacific journal of public health2023

Smoking Among High School Students in Dili, Timor-Leste: Prevalence, Potential Determinants and Opportunities for Prevention and Control.

João S Martins, Susan McAllister, Livio da Conceição Matos, Natalia Pereira, Frederico B A Dos Santos, Richard Edwards

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Article in Asia-Pacific journal of public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Determinants of Smoking Among University Students in Northern Iraq.Journal of research in health sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

João S MartinsUniversidade Nacional Timor Lorosa'e, Díli, Timor Leste.
Susan McAllisterCentre for International Health, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0001-7881-6622
Livio da Conceição MatosSchool of Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa'e, Díli, Timor Leste.
Natalia PereiraSchool of Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa'e, Díli, Timor Leste.
Frederico B A Dos SantosDepartment of Non-Communicable Diseases, Ministry of Health, Díli, Timor-Leste.
Richard EdwardsDepartment of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Smoking initiation is concentrated among young people which strongly influences future smoking prevalence. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of smoking and other tobacco product use and potential determinants in a cross-sectional survey of 1 121 students aged 13 to 15 years in Dili, Timor-Leste. The prevalence of

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StudentsTobacco Smoke PollutionAdolescentChildCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansMalePrevalenceSmokingSmoking PreventionTimor-LesteTobacco Smoke Pollutionadolescentsexposuresprevalencesmokingtobacco

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PMID37148123
PMCPMC10387819

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