Health awareness days: Sufficient evidence to support the craze?

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1061-1065

  Purtle, Jonathan ^a   Roman, Leah A ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Roman Public Health Consulting LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC OPINION; UNITED STATES;

AWARENESS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC OPINION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929346991     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302621     Document Type: Note

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