Health information seeking in context: How women make decisions regarding hormone replacement therapy

Journal of Health Communication

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 477-493

  Wathen, C Nadine ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE;

AGED; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33746266843     PISSN: 10810730     EISSN: 10870415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10810730600751979     Document Type: Article

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