The Healthy Talk family planning campaign of Massachusetts: A communication-centered approach

Health Education

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 314-325

  Cho, Hyunyi ^a   Oehlkers, Peter ^b   Mandelbaum, Juan ^c   Edlund, Karen ^d   Zurek, Melanie ^d  

^a EMERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c President and Creative Director of Geovision   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Advertising media; Diseases; Pregnancy; Sexual health; Social marketing; Young adults

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992943369     PISSN: 09654283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09654280410560569     Document Type: Article

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