E-commerce of pharmaceuticals

Harefuah

Volumn 142, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 372-376+396

  Shani, Segev ^a,b  

^a GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Drug advertising; Drug information; E commerce; Internet; Online pharmacies

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG MARKETING; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; POLICY; PRESCRIPTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT;

DRUG INDUSTRY; ELECTRONIC MAIL; INTERNET; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0037670033     PISSN: 00177768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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