German wide cross sectional survey on health impacts of electromagnetic fields in the view of general practitioners

Bernd Kowall, Jürgen Breckenkamp, Kristina Heyer and Gabriele Berg-Beckhoff ()

International Journal of Public Health, 2010, vol. 55, issue 5, 507-512

Abstract: About a third of German GPs associate EMF with health complaints and thus deviate considerably from current scientific knowledge. To avoid a strong selection bias in the surveys of the perception of EMF risks, use of short questionnaires and late responder analysis are recommended. Copyright Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel/Switzerland 2010

Keywords: Risk perception; Electromagnetic fields; General practitioners; Selection bias; Late responder analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/s00038-009-0110-2

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