Information women receive about heart attacks and how it affects their knowledge, beliefs, and intentions to act in a cardiac emergency

Health Care for Woman International

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 149-162

  Meischke, Hendrika ^a   Kuniyuki, Alan ^b   Yasui, Yutaka ^b   Bowen, Deborah J ^b   Andersen, Robyn ^b   Urban, Nicole ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERVIEW; MASS MEDIUM; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERVIEWS; MASS MEDIA; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; WASHINGTON; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0036480085     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/073993302753429022     Document Type: Article

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