The Relationship between Media Consumption and Health-Related Anxieties after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Sugimoto, Amina ^a   Nomura, Shuhei ^a   Tsubokura, Masaharu ^b   Matsumura, Tomoko ^b   Muto, Kaori ^b   Sato, Mikiko ^b   Gilmour, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; DISASTER PLANNING; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH RELATED ANXIETY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SEMINAR; RUMOR; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELEVISION;

ADULT; ANXIETY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HEALTH; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MASS MEDIA; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84881504621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065331     Document Type: Article

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