Knowledge and attitudes of high school pupils towards children with special health care needs: An Israeli exploration

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 5-10

  Brook, Uzi ^a,b   Galili, A ^a,b  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Health care needs; Knowledge; Pupils; School

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC PATIENT; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISABLED CHILDREN; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; PEER GROUP; STUDENTS;

EID: 0033963018     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0738-3991(99)00048-8     Document Type: Article

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