A readability comparison of anti- versus pro-influenza vaccination online messages in Japan

Preventive Medicine Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2017, Pages 47-52

  Okuhara, Tsuyoshi ^a   Ishikawa, Hirono ^a   Okada, Masahumi ^a   Kato, Mio ^a   Kiuchi, Takahiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti vaccination; Health literacy; Influenza vaccination; Internet; Processing fluency; Readability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; JAPAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEARCH ENGINE; STUDENT T TEST;

EID: 85013818910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22113355     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2017.02.013     Document Type: Article

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