Educating Women for HIV Prevention: Does Exposure to Mass Media Make Them More Knowledgeable?

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 34, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 303-331

  Jesmin, Syeda S ^a   Chaudhuri, Sanjukta ^b   Abdullah, Shahnaz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BANGLADESH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; MASS MEDIUM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLICATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELEVISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BANGLADESH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEYS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MASS MEDIA; MIDDLE AGED; NEWSPAPERS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RADIO; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TELEVISION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873908414     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2012.736571     Document Type: Article

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