Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards pandemic influenza among cases, close contacts, and healthcare workers in tropical Singapore: A cross-sectional survey

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Yap, Jonathan ^a   Lee, Vernon J ^a,b,c   Yau, Teng Yan ^a   Ng, Tze Pin ^d   Tor, Phern Chern ^a,d  

^a Ministry of Defence Government of Singapore   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c The Australian National University   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMIC; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SINGAPORE; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMICS; SINGAPORE;

EID: 77954945249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-442     Document Type: Article

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