The effect of health communications on a statewide West Nile virus public health education campaign

American Journal of Health Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 483-494

  Fox, Michael H ^a   Averett, Ellen ^a   Hansen, Gail ^b   Neuberger, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Communications; Health education; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748491056     PISSN: 10873244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5993/AJHB.30.5.5     Document Type: Article

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