"It's as bad as anything can be": Patients, identity, and the influenza pandemic

Public Health Reports

Volumn 125, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2010, Pages 134-144

  Bristow, Nancy K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL STATUS; SYMPTOM; VIRULENCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEREAVEMENT; EPIDEMIC; FAMILY SIZE; GENDER IDENTITY; HISTORY; INFLUENZA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

BEREAVEMENT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; POVERTY; PREJUDICE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954686073     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00333549101250s316     Document Type: Review

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