Getting the biggest bang for your health education buck: Message framing and reducing health disparities

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 812-822

  Schneider, Tamera R ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Health disparities; Health promotion; Message framing; Persuasion

Indexed keywords

EID: 31644447240     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: 15523381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764205283802     Document Type: Article

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