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Behavioral Consequences of Conflict-Oriented Health News Coverage: The 2009 Mammography Guideline Controversy and Online Information Seeking

Brian E. Weeks School of Communication, The Ohio State UniversityCorrespondence[email protected]
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Laura M. Friedenberg Cancer Control Section, Minnesota Department of Health
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Brian G. Southwell Social Policy, Health, and Economics Research Unit, RTI International; School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Jonathan S. Slater Cancer Control Section, Minnesota Department of Health
Pages 158-166 | Published online: 08 Aug 2011

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