Do celebrity cancer diagnoses promote primary cancer prevention?

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 81-84

  Ayers, John W ^a   Althouse, Benjamin M ^b   Noar, Seth M ^c,e   Cohen, Joanna E ^d  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital disease detection; Health communication; Tobacco control

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAZIL; CANCER PREVENTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; LARYNX CANCER; MASS MEDIUM; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC FIGURE; SMOKING CESSATION; TREND STUDY;

DIGITAL DISEASE DETECTION; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; TOBACCO CONTROL;

BRAZIL; COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FAMOUS PERSONS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LEADERSHIP; MALE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 84890167593     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2013.11.007     Document Type: Article

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