Building partnerships with traditional Chinese medicine practitioners to increase hepatitis B awareness and prevention

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1125-1127

  Chang, Ellen T ^a,b,c   Lin, Steven Y ^a,b   Sue, Eric ^a   Bergin, Meredith ^a   Su, Jordan ^a   So, Samuel K S ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; AWARENESS; CHI SQUARE TEST; CHINESE MEDICINE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ASIA; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CALIFORNIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEPATITIS B; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; PRIMARY PREVENTION;

EID: 37649019576     PISSN: 10755535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/acm.2007.0655     Document Type: Article

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