Health consumer diversity and its implications

Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 34-47

  Edgren, Lars ^a  

^a Skane County Council   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Consumer diversity; Consumer segmentation; Cultural variation; Culturally diverse; Enabling consumers; Health consumers; Service management; Socially diverse; Systems theory; The Internet

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746050883     PISSN: 10043756     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11518-006-0034-9     Document Type: Article

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