Information seeking regarding tobacco and lung cancer: Effects of seasonality

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Zhu ^a   Zheng, Xiaolong ^a   Zeng, Daniel Dajun ^a,b   Leischow, Scott J ^c  

^a State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; CHINA; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERNET; LUNG CANCER; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TREND STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; ADVERSE EFFECTS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEASON; TOBACCO;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERNATIONALITY; INTERNET; LUNG NEOPLASMS; SEASONS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TOBACCO;

EID: 84925003431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117938     Document Type: Article

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