SARS risk perception, knowledge, precautions, and information sources, the Netherlands

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1486-1489

  Brug, Johannes ^a   Aro, Arja R ^a,b   Oenema, Anke ^a   De Zwart, Onno ^c   Richardus, Jan Hendrik ^a   Bishop, George D ^d  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c Public Health Service of the Rotterdam Region   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

EID: 3543003503     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1008.040283     Document Type: Article

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