Enhancing health knowledge, health beliefs, and health behavior in poland through a health promoting television program series

Journal of Health Communication

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 179-196

  Chew, Fiona ^a   Palmer, Sushma ^b   Slonska, Zofia ^c   Subbiah, Kalyani ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for Communications Health and the Environment   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF CARDIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; POLAND; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELEVISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; POLAND; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELEVISION;

EID: 0036562767     PISSN: 10810730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10810730290088076     Document Type: Article

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