Smoke Alarm Ownership and Installation: A Comparison of a Rural and a Suburban Community in Georgia
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Community Health
- Vol. 26 (5) , 307-329
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1010478116532
Abstract
As part of a smoke alarm giveaway and installation program (The Get-Alarmed Campaign), a total of 454 households were surveyed in two counties in Georgia, one metropolitan and one nonmetropolitan....Keywords
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