Embedding health messages into entertainment television: Effect on gay men's response to a syphilis outbreak

Journal of Health Communication

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 251-259

  Whittier, David Knapp ^a,d   Kennedy, May G ^a   St Lawrence, Janet S ^a   Seeley, Salvatore ^b   Beck, Vicki ^c  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b CAMP Rehoboth   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERNET; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYPHILIS; TELEVISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYPHILIS; TELEVISION;

EID: 7244254068     PISSN: 10810730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10810730590934271     Document Type: Article

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