Confronting cancer on thirty something: Audience response to health content on entertainment television

Journal of Health Communication

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 157-172

  Sharf, Barbara F ^a   Freimuth, Vicki S ^b   Greenspon, Pamela ^c   Plotnick, Courtney ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; OVARY TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; TELEVISION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TELEVISION;

EID: 0030112017     PISSN: 10810730     EISSN: 10870415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/108107396128121     Document Type: Article

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