The impact of community psychological responses on outbreak control for severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 857-863

  Leung, G M ^b   Lam, T H ^a,b   Ho, L M ^b   Ho, S Y ^b   Chan, B H Y ^b   Wong, I O L ^b   Hedley, A J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; KNOWLEDGE; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

ADULT; AGED; AIRBORNE INFECTION; ANXIETY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; REVIEW; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

CHINA;

EID: 0242404372     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.57.11.857     Document Type: Review

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