Cancer coverage in general-audience and black newspapers

Health Communication

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 427-435

  Cohen, Elisia L ^a   Caburnay, Charlene A ^b   Luke, Douglas A ^b   Rodgers, Shelly ^c   Cameron, Glen T ^c   Kreuter, Matthew W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; CLASSIFICATION; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASM; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BIBLIOMETRICS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; NEOPLASMS; NEWSPAPERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 53849090254     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410230802342176     Document Type: Article

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