Trust Influences Response to Public Health Messages during a Bioterrorist Event

Journal of Health Communication

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 217-232

  Meredith, Lisa S ^a,e   Eisenman, David P ^a,b   Rhodes, Hilary ^c   Ryan, Gery ^a   Long, Anna ^d  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d Los Angeles Department of Public Health   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HONESTY; HUMAN; MALE; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMALLPOX; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRUST; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOTERRORISM; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICATION; DISASTER PLANNING; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SMALLPOX; SOCIAL CLASS; TRUST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34248545275     PISSN: 10810730     EISSN: 10870415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10810730701265978     Document Type: Article

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