The Singaporean response to the SARS outbreak: Knowledge sufficiency versus public trust

Health Promotion International

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 320-326

  Deurenberg Yap, M ^a,b,c   Foo, L L ^a   Low, Y Y ^a   Chan, S P ^a   Vijaya, K ^a   Lee, M ^a  

^a Health Promotion Board ^*  (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Research and Information Management   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Knowledge; Response; SARS; Singapore; Trust

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALE; MASS COMMUNICATION; MASS MEDIUM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SATISFACTION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SINGAPORE; TELEPHONE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC OPINION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SINGAPORE; TRUST;

EID: 27944466799     PISSN: 09574824     EISSN: 14602245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dai010     Document Type: Article

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