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- Title
Future Directions for Youth Empowerment: Commentary on Application of Youth Empowerment Theory to Tobacco Control.
- Authors
Altman, David G.; Feighery, Ellen C.
- Abstract
The article discusses the significance of youth empowerment programs as an important strategy to improve tobacco control programs which involve youth in the U.S. It is accounted that youth empowerment has become a popular strategy in the theoretical and conceptual dimensions appertaining to tobacco control. Youth empowerment has been used by federal, state and local government to tackle a risk factor which most public health and medical leaders recognize as the cause of premature mortality and morbidity.
- Subjects
UNITED States; TOBACCO use; PREVENTION; SOCIAL action; SOCIAL movements; SOCIAL participation; ANTISMOKING movement; NICOTINE addiction; PUBLIC health
- Publication
Health Education & Behavior, 2004, Vol 31, Issue 5, p641
- ISSN
1090-1981
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1090198104268683