Social marketing analysis of 2 years of hand hygiene promotion

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 262-270

  Mah, Manuel W ^a,c   Yat, Cho Tam ^a   Deshpande, Sameer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^c Rockyview General Hospital   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THEORY; CINAHL; HAND WASHING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; PUBLICATION; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL MARKETING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

BENCHMARKING; HANDWASHING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; HYGIENE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOCIAL MARKETING;

EID: 39449088222     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/526442     Document Type: Article

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