Monitoring of risk perceptions and correlates of precautionary behaviour related to human avian influenza during 2006 - 2007 in the Netherlands: Results of seven consecutive surveys

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  de Zwart, Onno ^a,b   Veldhuijzen, Irene K ^a,b   Richardus, Jan H ^a,b   Brug, Johannes ^c  

^a Public Health Service of the Rotterdam Region   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BIRD; COMMON COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOOD POISONING; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; NETHERLANDS; POULTRY; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; TREND STUDY; TUBERCULOSIS; VULNERABLE POPULATION; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANIMAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFLUENZA; INTERNET; MIDDLE AGED; RISK REDUCTION; ZOONOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT; ZOONOSES;

EID: 77951984965     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-114     Document Type: Article

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