Information technologies, health, and "globalization": Anyone excluded?

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 134-139

  Parent, Florence ^a   Coppieters, Yves ^b,d   Parent, Marc ^c  

^a Observatoire de la Sante du Hainaut   (Belgium)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Delivery of Health Care; Digital Divide; Information Inequality

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIET; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERNET; LABORATORY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PATIENT; PHYSICIAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SITTING; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRAINING;

EID: 3242706112     PISSN: 14388871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.3.1.e11     Document Type: Review

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