Health Enhancement and Companion Animal Ownership
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Health enhancement and companion animal ownership.
The relationship between people and companion animals, on the one hand, explains the bites and zoonotic diseases that occur among those with companion animals and, on the other hand, appears to enhance the psychological and physiological well-being of many people. Presently, no less than 56% of households in the United States have animals, typical of developed countries around the world. It is ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annual Review of Public Health
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0163-7525,1545-2093
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.pu.17.050196.001335