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.