Carers and the digital divide: Factors affecting Internet use among carers in the UK

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 201-210

  Blackburn, Clare ^a   Read, Janet ^a   Hughes, Nathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carers; Digital divide; E government; Internet use

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CONSUMER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERNET; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; CAREGIVERS; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 17744381797     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2005.00547.x     Document Type: Article

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