Compliance with a medical regimen for asthma: a test of the health belief model.
PubMedPublished 24 July 1978Open access
M H Becker, Susan M. Radius, Irwin M. Rosenstock, Robert H. Drachman, Kenneth C. Schuberth, Katerine C. Teets
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