Terrorism in Australia: Factors associated with perceived threat and incident-critical behaviours

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Stevens, Garry ^a   Agho, Kingsley ^a   Taylor, Melanie ^a   Barr, Margo ^b   Raphael, Beverley ^a   Jorm, Louisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CENTRE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; TERRORISM; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MIGRATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW SOUTH WALES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TERRORISM;

EID: 64749115151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-91     Document Type: Article

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