How health anxiety influences responses to viral outbreaks like COVID-19: What all decision-makers, health authorities, and health care professionals need to know

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 71, Issue , 2020, Pages

  Asmundson, Gordon J G ^a   Taylor, Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; VIRUS VACCINE;

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ANXIETY; AUTHORITY; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; COUGHING; DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYALGIA; PANDEMIC; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VACCINATION; BETACORONAVIRUS; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ANXIETY; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 85081254713     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: 18737897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102211     Document Type: Editorial

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