Surfing the web during pandemic flu: Availability of World Health Organization recommendations on prevention

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gesualdo, Francesco ^a   Romano, Mariateresa ^a   Pandolfi, Elisabetta ^a   Rizzo, Caterina ^b   Rav, Lucilla ^a   Lucente, Daniela ^a   Tozzi, Alberto E ^a  

^a BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; PANDEMIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; PANDEMICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77956632504     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-561     Document Type: Article

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