Agenda-Setting Effects of Sun-Related News Coverage on Public Attitudes and Beliefs About Tanning and Skin Cancer

Health Communication

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 173-181

  Dixon, Helen ^a   Warne, Charles ^a   Scully, Maree ^a   Dobbinson, Suzanne ^a   Wakefield, Melanie ^a  

^a CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BERACTANT; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLICATION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUNBATHING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWSPAPERS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNBATHING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890127802     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: 15327027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2012.732027     Document Type: Article

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