Evaluating the Ozioma cancer news service: A community randomized trial in 24 U.S. cities

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 425-430

  Caburnay, Charlene A ^a,b   Luke, Douglas A ^b   Cameron, Glen T ^c   Cohen, Elisia L ^d   Fu, Qiang ^e   Lai, Choi L ^a   Stemmle, Jonathan T ^c   Paulen, Melissa ^a   Jackson, Lillie ^a   Kreuter, Matthew W ^a,b  

^a Health Communication Research Laboratory   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^e SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Cancer; Mass media; Minority health; Newspapers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH PROMOTION; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MASS MEDIUM; NEOPLASM; OZIOMA NEWS SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLICATION; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CITIES; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; NEOPLASMS; NEWSPAPERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861773196     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

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