The WWW of the World Wide Web: Who, what, and why?

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-4

  Powell, John ^a   Clarke, Aileen ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL HEALTH; SATISFACTION;

EID: 3242791739     PISSN: 14388871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.4.1.e4     Document Type: Editorial

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