Youth and violence on local television news in California

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 87, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1311-1316

  Dorfman, Lori ^a   Woodruff, Katie ^a   Chavez, Vivian ^a,c   Wallack, Lawrence ^a,b  

^a Berkeley Media Studies Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Health Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TELEVISION; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0030849749     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.87.8.1311     Document Type: Article

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