How well did health departments communicate about risk at the start of the swine flu epidemic in 2009?

Health Affairs

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Ringel, Jeanne S ^a   Trentacost, Elizabeth ^a   Lurie, Nicole ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SWINE INFLUENZA;

COMMUNICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; STATE GOVERNMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67651236312     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.4.w743     Document Type: Article

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7. For the purposes of this analysis, we included the District of Columbia with the states.
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