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The Oral Communication of Health-Disease Beliefs in a Serial Reproduction Experiment

Author: Meier, H.C.
Date Published: 1963


The research for this thesis was oriented to the problem of the oral communication of health-disease information by public health personnel to rural village-dwelling Spanish Americans of Northern New Mexico. The research strategy consisted of a demonstrational experiment testing the communicability of beliefs about tuberculosis under varied conditions of communicator affiliation and linguistic transition.

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Number of Pages: 280