People's choice: Complementary and alternative medicine modalities

Complementary Health Practice Review

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 99-119

  Robinson, Anske ^a,b   Chesters, Janice ^b   Cooper, Simon ^b  

^a Monash University School of Rural Health ^*  (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complementary and alternative medicine use; Complementary medicine use; Health care behavior; Health care beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 43549086840     PISSN: 15332101     EISSN: 15523845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1533210107302436     Document Type: Article

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