What predicts dissemination efforts among public health researchers in the United States?

Public Health Reports

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 361-368

  Tabak, Rachel G ^a   Stamatakis, Katherine A ^b   Jacobs, Julie A ^a   Brownson, Ross C ^a,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SCIENTIST; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNITED STATES; WORK EXPERIENCE;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84902969545     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335491412900411     Document Type: Article

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