A community's awareness and perceptions of genomic medicine

Public Health Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 63-71

  Hahn, S ^a   Letvak, S ^b   Powell, K ^c   Christianson, C ^c   Wallace, D ^b   Speer, M ^e   Lietz, P ^d   Blanton, S ^a   Vance, J ^a   Pericak Vance, M ^a   Henrich, V C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Kaplan Higher Education   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^d MOSES CONE HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Awareness; Focus group; Health education; Health knowledge; Public health

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLONING; CODING; COMMUNITY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EDUCATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOMIC MEDICINE; GENOMICS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC OPINION;

AWARENESS; FOCUS GROUPS; GENOMICS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 73849090534     PISSN: 16624246     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000218712     Document Type: Article

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