Cancer risk communication in mainstream and ethnic newspapers

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Stryker, Jo Ellen ^a   Fishman, Jessica ^b   Emmons, Karen M ^c   Viswanath, Kasisomayajula ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NEOPLASM; PUBLICATION; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD;

COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NEWSPAPERS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 59149100138     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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