Assessment of local public health workers' willingness to respond to pandemic influenza through application of the extended parallel process model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Barnett, Daniel J ^a,b   Balicer, Ran D ^c   Thompson, Carol B ^a   Storey, J Douglas ^a,b   Omer, Saad B ^d   Semon, Natalie L ^a,b   Bayer, Steve ^e   Cheek, Lorraine V ^f   Gateley, Kerry W ^g   Lanza, Kathryn M ^h   Norbin, Jane A ⁱ   Slemp, Catherine C ^j   Links, Jonathan M ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Mid Ohio Valley Health Department   (United States)

^f WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Kanawha Charleston Health Department   (United States)

^h Summit County Health District   (United States)

ⁱ REGIONS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^j West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTENDED PARALLEL PROCESS MODEL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MALE; PANDEMIC; PROCESS MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67749108571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006365     Document Type: Article

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