Recruiting young gay and bisexual men for a human papillomavirus vaccination intervention through social media: The effects of advertisement content

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Reiter, Paul L ^a   Katz, Mira L ^b   Bauermeister, Jose A ^c   Shoben, Abigail B ^b   Paskett, Electra D ^a   McRee, Annie Laurie ^d  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Gay and bisexual men; HPV; HPV vaccine; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 85064911193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23692960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/publichealth.7545     Document Type: Article

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