Celebrity Health Announcements and Online Health Information Seeking: An Analysis of Angelina Jolie’s Preventative Health Decision

Health Communication

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 752-761

  Dean, Marleah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DECISION MAKING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MASTECTOMY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC FIGURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DECISION MAKING; DISCLOSURE; FAMOUS PERSONS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; MASTECTOMY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84958836528     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: 15327027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2014.995866     Document Type: Article

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