Tackle the problem when it gets here: Pandemic preparedness among small and medium businesses

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 902-912

  Watkins, Rochelle E ^a   Cooke, Feonagh C ^a   Donovan, Robert J ^a   Raina MacIntyre, C ^b,c   Itzwerth, Ralf ^c   Plant, Aileen J ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b University of Sydney   (Australia)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

Author keywords

Influenza; Pandemic; Perceptions; Response; Risk

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; AVIAN INFLUENZA; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISASTER PLANNING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PANDEMIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

COMMERCE; COMMUNICATION; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK; WORKPLACE;

EID: 45249116805     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732308318032     Document Type: Article

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