The effects of social networks on tobacco use among high-school adolescents in Mexico Efectos de redes sociales sobre el uso de tabaco en adolescentes de preparatoria en México

• Main Authors: Guadalupe Ramírez-Ortiz (Author), Ramiro Caballero-Hoyos (Author), Guadalupe Ramírez-López (Author), Thomas W Valente (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: To identify the effect of centrality in social network positions on tobacco-use among high-school adolescents in Tonala, Jalisco, Mexico. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Longitudinal sociometric social network data were collected among 486 high-school adolescents in 2003 and 399 in 2004. The surve...