Pandemic influenza in Australia: Using telephone surveys to measure perceptions of threat and willingness to comply

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Barr, Margo ^a   Raphael, Beverley ^b   Taylor, Melanie ^b   Stevens, Garry ^b   Jorm, Louisa ^b   Giffin, Michael ^a   Lujic, Sanja ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FACE MASK; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANDEMIC; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; TELEPHONE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EPIDEMIC; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; PERCEPTION;

EID: 53149132421     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-8-117     Document Type: Article

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