Does entertainment-education work with Latinos in the United States? Identification and the effects of a telenovela breast cancer storyline

Journal of Health Communication

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 455-469

  Wilkin, Holley A ^a   Valente, Thomas W ^b   Murphy, Sheila ^c   Cody, Michael J ^c   Huang, Grace ^c   Beck, Vicki ^c  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEPHONE; TELEVISION; UNITED STATES;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEYS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOCIAL MARKETING; TELEVISION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548062921     PISSN: 10810730     EISSN: 10870415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10810730701438690     Document Type: Article

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