Prevention and screening efficacy messages in newspaper accounts of cancer

Health Education Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 487-498

  Moriarty, Cortney M ^a   Stryker, Jo Ellen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HEALTH HAZARD; INFORMATION CENTER; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SKIN CANCER;

HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MASS SCREENING; NEOPLASMS; NEWSPAPERS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; SELF EFFICACY;

EID: 44649191831     PISSN: 02681153     EISSN: 14653648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/her/cyl163     Document Type: Article

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