Worrying About Terrorism and Other Acute Environmental Health Hazard Events.
Objectives. To better understand why some people worry more about terrorism compared with others, we measured how much US residents worried about a terrorist event in their area and examined the association of their fears with their concerns about acute and chronic hazards and other correlates. Meth...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 102; no. 4; pp. 651 - 657 |
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