Teachers' risk perception and needs in addressing infectious disease outbreak

Journal of School Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 398-406

  Wong, Emmy M Y ^a   Cheng, May M H ^b   Lo, S K ^a  

^a THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

health education; infection control; infectious disease; risk perception; school health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SCHOOL HEALTH NURSING; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEACHING;

ADULT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SCHOOL NURSING; TEACHING;

EID: 78049302164     PISSN: 10598405     EISSN: 15468364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059840510375552     Document Type: Article

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