Can We Resolve the Disconnect Between How Communication Interventions Work and How We Evaluate Them?

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 121-124

  Popova, Lucy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION;

COMMUNICATION; HUMANS;

EID: 84975721727     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: 15526127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090198116629423     Document Type: Editorial

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